It is to meet the prevailing situation that the legislature has provided for the appointment of a Lokpal. The purpose is to restore the lost confidence in public mind about publicmen. A public man with a flexible conscience or licentious principles might die unlamented. But he cannot live unseen. Nor can his deeds remain unknown.
Sunlight is the best antiseptic.
Degree of deference for a person should depend upon an open display. Not on disguise. Candor has always been the pride of man. Nobody looks at a lantern without light. In a free society like ours, nothing can be so oppressive as a secret about a public man.