-PTI/ The Telegraph Judgment concludes a 28-year-old chapter stemming from one of the darkest incidents in Indian history Lucknow: A special CBI court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 surviving accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case, denying any conspiracy by the assembled BJP and VHP heavyweights and blaming the vandalism on “anti-social elements” who had infiltrated the kar sevaks. The judgment concludes a 28-year-old chapter stemming from one of the darkest incidents in...
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Ayodhya Case Verdict: Pre-Constitution question from Justice Ganguly -Meghdeep Bhattacharyya
-The Telegraph "As a student of the Constitution, it is a little difficult for me to accept it," he says Calcutta: Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, a retired Supreme Court judge, on Saturday said the Ayodhya judgment had created a doubt in his mind and that he was “very disturbed”. “Minorities have seen for generations that there was a masjid there. It was demolished. On top of that, a temple is being built, according...
More »Backlog burden of Supreme Court, from Aadhaar to Ayodhya -Vishnu Padmanabhan and Sriharsha Devulapalli
-Livemint.com The Supreme Court is delivering more judgements, especially on appeals, even as it continues to be plagued by a massive backlog of cases, shows data New Delhi: These are busy times for the Supreme Court. From Aadhaar to Ayodhya, the apex court is poised to deliver verdicts that could change the Indian society. However, beyond the headline cases, the court is also hearing several other, more mundane cases. This is part...
More »Delay in hearing appeals as good as justice denied
-The Times of India The wheels of justice, the saying goes, grind slowly but grind exceedingly fine. In the Indian context, it would be more true to say that they grind so exceedingly slowly that there can be nothing fine about the outcome. When we set out to look at instances of gross miscarriage of justice, we found several cases where people were convicted of heinous crimes and locked up for...
More »Fleeting victory, constant fear-Santosh Singh
-The Indian Express Nagri, Bhojpur: Residents of Nagri in Bihar’s Bhojpur had spent 12 years waiting for justice after the killing of 10 people, nine of them of scheduled castes and OBCs and one a Muslim, during a caste attack on May 11, 1998. And after they felt justice had finally come, it proved short-lived. “First, we had to wait 12 years before the lower court finally handed the death sentence to...
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