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published Published on Nov 14, 2020   modified Modified on Nov 18, 2020

-The Indian Express

Highest court does well to underline what it should do. Hopefully, it listens to itself — and stands up for a stand-up comedian.

Granting interim bail within a day to Arnab Goswami in a 2018 suicide abetment case, Supreme Court Justice DY Chandrachud correctly described the responsibility of the apex court: “Forget Arnab Goswami for a moment, we are a constitutional court… If we as a constitutional court do not lay down law and protect personal liberty, then who will?” Yet the disheartening impression will not go away: That in the extraordinary alacrity it showed in this matter, while turning an unseeing eye and inattentive ear to other cases that involve personal liberty and free expression of citizens for weeks and months, the court itself singled out Goswami. Justice Chandrachud was right, again, to say that “If we don’t interfere in this case today, we will walk on a path of destruction” and that a message must be sent to high courts. In its manner and timing, Goswami’s arrest reeked heavily of political vendetta. And yet, what is also glaringly evident is that the Supreme Court has not held itself to its own high standard in several other cases of citizen vs state, ranging from habeas corpus petitions in Kashmir, to detentions made on flimsy charges of sedition to the slapping of draconian laws on journalists for no other apparent reason than that they were doing their job. The ordeal of Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, for instance, arrested on his way to Hathras in the wake of the gangrape and death of a young woman, and charged under UAPA, continues to seek its day in the apex court.

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The Indian Express, 14 November, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/sc-arnab-goswami-kunal-kamra-7050967/


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