If you need to ask lawyers this, you really don't understand what a republic is. Primary school civics would tell you it's illegal.
This man is a great distillation of much that is wrong with Indian media.
This man is a great distillation of much that is wrong with Indian media.
Due process doesn't mean just paperwork. Nazis also carried lots of paperwork.
Due process means when the govt accuses you of something, you have the right to object and you are innocent until proven guilty, verified by judiciary, BEFORE any punitive action can be taken.
Due process means when the govt accuses you of something, you have the right to object and you are innocent until proven guilty, verified by judiciary, BEFORE any punitive action can be taken.
Due process was blatantly ignored when demolishing the house of #AfreenFatima. Bisht and his cops are accusers, judge, jury, executioner, everything. Not a peep from courts.
You don't need a law degree to see this was not just illegal but unconstitutional. In a republic anyway.
You don't need a law degree to see this was not just illegal but unconstitutional. In a republic anyway.
Beware of centrists treating paperwork as due process. They are just giving cover fire to distract you.
It does not matter even if the house was somehow a code violation. In a republic, you don't do destructive irreversible punishments without the accused getting a day in court.
It does not matter even if the house was somehow a code violation. In a republic, you don't do destructive irreversible punishments without the accused getting a day in court.
This is NOT a "both sides" story. There is no other side to this and you don't need legal eagles to tell you that.
Summary demolitions and summary executions are what fascists do, not democratic constitutional republics.
But with the Indian judiciary pretty much in tank for the sangh, what constitution?
But with the Indian judiciary pretty much in tank for the sangh, what constitution?
If a Chief Minister has a Big majority in the legislature, the only thing stopping him from acting like a fascist is the fear of Article 365. But he has Delhi's blessings.
Courts are silent but even if they were to step in, Bisht can pull an Andrew Jackson and say, I ignore it.
Courts are silent but even if they were to step in, Bisht can pull an Andrew Jackson and say, I ignore it.
Courts can be a deterrent only if the rulers believe in the constitution and an independent judiciary. They believe in neither.
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