Latest revelation in Pegasus controversy comes a day before a 2-judge Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana is scheduled to hear a batch of PILs seeking a probe into the matter.
Justice Arun Mishra, who retires from SC after a 6-year tenure, had frequent run-ins with the Bar, including in the recent Prashant Bhushan contempt case.
In 2018, a 3 -judge bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra had overruled a judgment passed by another 3-judge bench of the court in 2014, causing controversy.
On 3 December, Justice Mishra while hearing a case had warned senior lawyer Gopal Shankarnarayanan of contempt & conviction if he did not stop repeating arguments.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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