CJI Ramana’s determination to avoid crucial constitutional cases with a ten-foot pole crosses the line from judicial caution to judicial pusillanimity: no matter how difficult the situation, there is no excuse for the court refusing to do its job.
Insist on individual affidavits from the home minister, the NSA and other key officials, and allow a review by reputed organisations of the technical committee’s findings.
Supreme Court on Friday said that freebies at cost of taxpayers money may push the state towards imminent bankruptcy . It also ordered the listing of pleas raising the issue of the practice of political parties promising freebies before a three-judge bench