KARMA and BACHI. Bachi is a Japanese word that is similar to Karma, but relates just to negative actions. In Japanese, they say bachi ga ataru', meaning something bad will happen to you if your actions are malicious.
*Bachi is considered as 'divine punishment' or 'supernatural retribution' that results from one's bad actions.
Depending on the situation, the Japanese display a sense of restraint in their behaviour for a fear of Bachi. After Buddhism was introduced to Japan, people easily accepted the notion of karmic retribution but not the literal belief of rebirth animals or lower life forms |  |
*We may recall that in his recent Tribunal hearing for 'misbehaviour', Pryde claimed from New Zealand that he could not mount a 'Rolls Royce' case because Salesi Temo had stopped his salary.
*Mrs Ari Taniguchi faced similar obstacles, for she was required to deposit thousands of dollars with the Fiji High Court registry if her Judicial Review case against Pryde's decision was to be heard by Temo.
*According to legal sources close to the Taniguchis', the couple concluded that there was no way they would get justice from Temo, so they reluctantly abandoned their legal challenge, hoping to take up their case before another Fiji High Court judge instead of Salesi Temo.
*Was Pryde, as DPP, wrong not to prosecute NFP leader Biman Prasad?
From Fijileaks Archive, 27 March 2024
*The Lying Lawyers in the then A-G Siromi Turaga's A-G Chambers
Besides the two counts of indecently insulting the modesty of a female, Prasad should have been charged with an alternative count under the Harassment Electronic Act, for those late-night text messages were causing Mrs Taniguchi stress, alarm, and discomfort, according to an Indo-Fijian woman witness who gave evidence to Police.
The DPP should have, then, sent Prasad to stand TRIAL.
In the spat between Pryde and Qiliho, Mrs Taniguchi, the VICTIM, comes across as a lying Japanese housewife.
The DPP says around the same time, his office received a letter of representation from AK Lawyers, Professor Prasad’s law firm where the letter was forwarded to the legal officer to consider along with the evidence from the police file.
He says the legal opinion was then vetted by the manager and the recommendations not to charge were forwarded to me for decision.
Pryde says he read the legal opinion, the recommendations from the manager, and the representations in the defence lawyer’s letter and the legal officer and the manager had considered all of the evidence including the credibility of the complainant and how her evidence would come out under cross-examination.
He says he agreed with the two legal officers that the evidence the police had obtained did not meet the evidentiary threshold and therefore would not be likely to result in a conviction.
He says the legal opinion was then vetted by the manager and the recommendations not to charge were forwarded to me for decision.
Pryde says he read the legal opinion, the recommendations from the manager, and the representations in the defence lawyer’s letter and the legal officer and the manager had considered all of the evidence including the credibility of the complainant and how her evidence would come out under cross-examination.
He says he agreed with the two legal officers that the evidence the police had obtained did not meet the evidentiary threshold and therefore would not be likely to result in a conviction.
