But there is something particularly curious about Sharma’s arrest. Perhaps this inability is a product of an unease amongst the political class with the genuine democratization of the public discourse as a result of social media. The Supreme Court, expected to be the guardian of the Constitution, appears to provide hollow hope. When it heard Sharma’s bail application, while granting her bail, it asked her to tender an apology in writing for her actions. The way in which the Supreme Court is a mute spectator to its own judgment prohibiting strikes by lawyers being flagrantly violated is regrettable and shows the diminishing regard in which the legal fraternity itself treats judgments of the Supreme Court.

Source: The Telegraph May 17, 2019 03:22 UTC