The Emergency has never really ended
The textbooks treat 1977 as the closing of a parenthesis. Read the preventive-detention statute book, the internet-shutdown logs, and Part IVA of the Constitution, and the parenthesis is still open.
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The textbooks treat 1977 as the closing of a parenthesis. Read the preventive-detention statute book, the internet-shutdown logs, and Part IVA of the Constitution, and the parenthesis is still open.
On 28 September 2018 a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court refused by 2:1 to constitute an SIT into the Bhima Koregaon arrests. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud dissented. A reading of his 41-paragraph opinion on fair investigation, Article 32, and the boundary between dissent and incitement.
Half a century after ADM Jabalpur, Justice H.R. Khanna's solitary dissent reads less like a counterargument and more like the only judgment that survived. A reconstruction of what he refused to concede, and why his colleagues refused with him.
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