Three days in Indian courts: A tale of 'corruption', misogyny and privilege
In a nation where judges are revered as demigods and courtrooms as temples of justice, the events of three calamitous days in March have laid bare the clay feet of these presumed divinities. The judge and the definition of dignity While Justice Varma’s cash burned in Delhi, Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra of the Allahabad High Court was busy redefining the boundaries of sexual assault. In another infamous case, a Karnataka High Court judge, while granting anticipatory bail to a rape accused in 2020, remarked that it was “unbecoming of an Indian woman” to fall asleep after being “ravished”. In 2021, the Bombay High Court ruled that groping a child without “skin-to-skin contact” did not constitute sexual assault under the POCSO Act, a judgment the Supreme Court overturned. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has stayed a Lokpal order asserting jurisdiction over sitting high court judges, jealously guarding its self-regulatory prerogatives despite mounting evidence of their inefficacy.
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