Drawing by Arun Ferreira The Wire / by Markandey Katju and Janhvi Prakash It must be regrettably said that the judiciary has largely surrendered before the political executive. The words ‘Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting’, from the Bible (Daniel:5:27), were used by Sir Winston Churchill in 1938 to criticise Neville Chamberlain, the then British prime minister, for signing the shameful Munich Pact with Hitler. The same words could aptly be used for the Indian Supreme Court too, … Continue reading All the Times the Supreme Court Turned a Nelson’s Eye to Injustice