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Addressed to the Chief Justice of India, the letter offers support and solidarity at a time when the court, the signatories say, is under an egregious assault from parties interested in undermining it...
He shared the text of the lawyers letter of support and solidarity for what they see as an endangered judiciary with an interesting comment that 50 years ago, the Congress demanded a committed judiciary...
This takes us back to 1973 and then 1977, when Indira Gandhis government carried out two significant supersessions in the appointment of the Chief Justice of India..
For one not really so bothered by the politics of the day, and with all the biases of a cricket nut, I might think the Supreme Court really lost its way later when it waded into managing (I am still scared of speaking the truth but, what the hell, eventually and inevitably mismanaging) Indian cricket with its your daddy strongest takeover of the BCCI..
The references to the courts unnamed enemies making insinuations of bench fixing, arguing in the court during the day and campaigning in TV news debates later in the evening (to influence the judges), and criticism of individual judges and judgments, are all to be read together.. There is a particularly interesting and intriguing line about lawyers criticising some politically but defending them in courts..
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