What the hell is going on in this country?

This question was posed by the justices in a recent majority opinion of the Indian Supreme Court:

The Supreme Court (SC) questioned on Thursday the Centre’s inertia in sparing major black money hoarders, such as Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, custodial interrogation and asked it to respond by Tuesday.

“What the hell is going on in this country?” an anguished bench of justices B Sudershan Reddy and SS Nijjar said as it heard a PIL filed by noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani and others over black money stashed by Indian tax evaders in foreign banks.

Khan, who is alleged to have stashed away around $8 billion, has been served a notice demanding tax of Rs50,000 crore. SC also asked solicitor general (SG) Gopal Subramanium why three key enforcement directorate officials probing a case of alleged foreign exchange violation by Khan were transferred midway and ordered their immediate reinstatement. “It’s unfortunate,” the court said[...]