The judge said that apprehension of bias, unsupported by tangible evidence, cannot be allowed to put judiciary itself on trial, or set a precedent that undermines institutional integrity.
From Kejriwal, Sisodia, Sanjay Singh to BRS leader K. Kavitha, Delhi High Court judge Swarana Kanta Sharma's significant rulings in the high-profile case back in spotlight.
This decision is so damaging to the government that efforts will be made to ensure that it does not stand. The prosecution has said that it will file an appeal in the high court.
Judge says policy formulation is inherently experimental, & failure of policy or lawful profit earned by private players under it, doesn't by itself constitute criminality.
Incidentally, the term ‘miscarriage of justice’ was also used by special CBI judge Jitendra Singh two times in his 598-page order discharging the AAP leaders in the case.
For AAP, the corruption taint became a heavy burden given that it was born out of an anti-corruption movement & lacked a strong ideological glue to hold it together.
Court also rapped CBI for filing ‘voluminous charge sheet’ which it said did not support any witness statements and suffered from ‘internal contradictions’.
Special CBI court pulled up probe agency for not backing assertions made in chargesheet, discharged 21 others in case filed in 2022 on Delhi L-G’s recommendation.
ED says raids were conducted at 37 locations across Delhi-NCR. Meanwhile, former education minister Manish Sisodia, who was booked in the case, recorded his statement before officials.
The problem with a recent Economist article, ‘India’s republic of uncles’, is the old habit of mistaking a clever metropolitan caricature for civilisational diagnosis.
‘Security situation demands capabilities. The hum of machinery must become a roar,’ NATO chief Mark Rutte said as he announced 5 new military contracts. Drones and ISR take the lead.
The Congress party’s abandonment of nationalism is the most intriguing aspect of its post-2014 politics. The real Congress was never a party of bleeding heart pacifists.
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