“A court that can assemble a bench overnight to decide the fate of dogs but cannot summon the will to hear bail pleas pending for two years undermines its own moral authority.”
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Surendra Gadling’s Bail Delays Put Supreme Court’s Judicial Apathy on Display – Frontline https://frontline.thehindu.com/columns/supreme-court-surendra-gadling-judicial-apathy-bhima-koregaon/article69968264.ece
Why do fascists target schools, libraries, museums, theaters, movies, and books? Whether it’s India, the US, or Nazi Germany, it’s an important question to ask for us Indians.
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Visiting lots of Smithsonian web properties. They have lots of interesting work.
Surendra Gadling’s bail application has become a Kafkaesque file in the Supreme Court. It appears on the cause list, only to vanish. It is mentioned, only to be deferred. It is scheduled, only to be adjourned. The judge presiding over it, Justice M.M. Sundresh, has turned the very act of not hearing into a form of adjudication
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Surendra Gadling’s Bail Delays Put Supreme Court’s Judicial Apathy on Display – Frontline