Just when there is a glimmer of hope in the blackness of Bihar, just whenalmost the entire nation is celebrating that there arestill some people out there, in that bottomless abyss, who believe in the oldfashioned dictum of "do your duty", just when it seems that being anMP need not ensure immunity from the law of the land, just then the politicalclass decides it's time for retribution in cynical disregard to public opinion.