News anchor Arnab Goswami sits inside a police van outside a court in Maharashtra after being arrested COLLECTEDIs India witnessing an assault on constitutional norms? The checks and balances built into the country’s 244-year-old political system are capable of working as intended. Just over the past few days in India, there have been several separate red flags about judicial independence. Writing in Indian Express this week, the renowned scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta noted: “The Indian Supreme Court was never perfect. But the signs are that it is slipping into judicial barbarism.”Mehta explained: “The term ‘barbarism’ has several components.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 19, 2020 20:03 UTC