While the Court served as a bulwark against unreasonable and disproportionate State action in some cases, there were some orders and judgments that were met with criticism.
As many as 19 groups have addressed a letter to the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud requesting that he reconsider the apex court’s suspension of the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench’s order acquitting scholar and professor GN Saibaba in a Maoist-link case in which he was serving a life sentence in Nagpur jail.
Activists associated with the 'Campaign against State Repression' wondered why the acquittal granted to the accused in the case by the Bombay high court was overturned within 24 hours.
In October, the Bombay HC had acquitted the former Delhi University professor in a case of allegedly having links with Maoists. But the SC reversed the order.