Settling scores with political opponents through arrests and raids has been routine under the present political dispensation; but astoundingly, the Supreme Court has abetted the settling of scores this time.
The thrust of the Supreme Court's judgment – that Modi did his best to control the 2002 violence and that his failure to do so was not deliberate – goes against its own rationale for appointing an SIT to investigate and prosecute the mass crimes that had been committed on his watch.