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Theoretically, a Judge like any other citizen of India, is entitled to fair probe against him. This is a part of natural justice. But practically, a Judge instead of availing protection which usually an ordinary accused citizen tends to avail in court, should do soul-searching and if he is not able to establish that cash has been planted as a part of some conspiracy against him, he should quit the scene. It is said, “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion”. It is also said, justice must not only be done but it must be seen to have been done. All these lofty principles of law put burden on the Judge to search his own conscience instead of taking shelter behind the legal protections which an ordinary person seeks in court. Dignity of law warrants that he should simply quit solely on the reasoning that something suspicious has happened at his residence, and he is quitting so that this particular incident does not taint the image of entire judicial system.