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Supreme change of mind




Dhananjay Mahapatra

Dhananjay Mahapatra has spent 20 years in journalism, 15 of which have been on the legal beat. Right from trial court to the Supreme Court, he has covered many sensational cases including the anti-Sikh riots case against HKL Bhagat, the hawala scam, the JMM MPs bribery scandal, the Bofors scam and the Kargil scam. He has been witness to major Supreme Court judgments involving intricate constitutional and political issues in the last 12 years. He has covered the war against terror in Afghanistan as well as the Kargil war among many other assignments outside the legal beat. He loves travelling, and recently drove from Delhi to Mumbai and back within a week.
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That SC has many times overturned its own rulings should be celebrated, not lamented. The 2-judge bench’s critique misses the point. From strengthening fundamental rights to decriminalising gay sex, guaranteeing right to privacy to stopping misuse of sedition, SC reviews have protected citizens

On Wednesday, a two-judge Supreme Court bench observed the court is pained at the “growing trend of revisiting and overturning of its own verdicts by subsequent benches”. Ironically, this obiter dictum came on the day the country commemorated its 75-year-old Constitution, one recognised by SC and jurists as a living document, open to dynamic interpretations with passage of time.

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