SOME VERDICTS AND SOME CONTROVERSIES
The highest court of India had pronounced some twenty odd verdicts in the recent weeks. Not all of them were unanimous. Some of them were fractured but majority judgments and there was not much of discussion at national level on the dissenting judgment in some of the cases. The SC decided on the petition to permit live streaming of court proceedings albeit with a time delay to mute the words that are being expunged in the records. The SC decided on the validity of the persons with criminal cases against them continuing as law makers. It kicked the ball into the court of the lawmakers to decide on debarring such individuals. The SC decided on the lawmakers appearing in cases in various courts and decided in favour of such lawmakers who are qualified and enrolled in the bar. The section 377 of the IPC relating to the same gender sex had been scrapped by a recent SC verdict. This move had been welcomed and hailed across the country and had its echo in some of ...