Getting Off Lightly

From Tehelka:

“When I will be asked by the Supreme Court why everyone else has got TADA and my client only the Arms Act, I will have no answer.”

He could just say it is an instance of the “benign judicial eye”.

Judges And The Poor

A former Supreme Court judge writes:

Most Ninth Schedule statutes were meant to save the wretched from the claws of pro-property dimensions of Part III of the Constitution. Judges must abide by Churchill's dictum: "Humanity, rather than legality, must be our guide".