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23 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
.@gautambhatia88 reviews the tenure of Chief Justice Bobde--"Evasion, Hypocrisy, and Duplicity," reads the title. You can guess what comes next. But worth reading in full: indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/eva…
This is an especially infuriating paragraph, on judicial evasion in the context of challenges to the electoral bond scheme, indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/eva…
As is this para on judicial evasion: challenges to important constitutional cases--abrogation of 370, EWS reservations, Aadhaar Act, etc.--remain pending indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/eva…
Indeed, one of the biggest puzzles in recent years is the transformation of India's judiciary (from the 'rise of judicial sovereignty' to the rise of judicial evasion). It's something @MadKhosla and I tried to address here: vaishnavmilan.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/khosla…

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