Evidently, the lofty(!!!) promise for reconsideration is only a trick to effectively kill the petition and, at the very least, get the present bench changed.
Good that the Court has made bold to underline two very obvious and, also, most salient issues: I. What happens to the current cases? II. What happens in the interim? One can only hope that the Court won't relent. <<We will definitely take into consideration that you are doing a serious exercise of reconsideration of the law. We should not appear unreasonable… But there are concerns. One is about cases which are already pending. The other is the future misuse of Section 124A during the reconsideration. The Attorney-General has himself said there is abuse… How are you going to protect the interests of the people from this abuse while the reconsideration exercise is on,” Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana asked Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre. At one point, the court said the reconsideration process could not be an open-ended one. “How long will you take for the ‘reconsideration’ of the law,” Chief Justice Ramana asked. But Mr. Mehta was non-committal. “I may not be able to say. The process has started,” the law officer said. He urged the court to trust the earnest tone and spirit of the government’s affidavit which promised the re-examination of the law. “There is a serious application of mind,” the Solicitor-General assured the court.>> (Excerpted from: < https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-seeks-interim-protection-for-people-charged-with-sedition/article65401441.ece >.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZjXuYwyGqbsP8JzLB26gPxy%2BX3N4e%2BrfFjvbnvVMiVDDQ%40mail.gmail.com.
