Sauce for the Goose is not sauce for the Gander

The Madras High Court and the Supreme Court dealt with the lawyer-police clash on February 19 in exactly the same manner that Sonia Gandhi and her minions in the UPA government, the CBI and the Supreme Court dealt with the Gujarat riots in 2002.

[This article makes several important observations; one – that it almost impossible to pin down the argument which decides the case because the seeker is led into the labyrinth of citations; two – oftentimes judgments are delivered not on basis of the word and spirit of law but on the judge’s (fanciful and even whimsical) interpretations of the law; three – it the article exposes the flawed love-is-blind; god-is-love; so god-is-blind logic which frequently passes for reasoned argument] Editor Vigilonline

The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justices' personal opinions into law. This practice has enabled the Court to act as an oligarchy that has usurped the Constitution and ruled the nation without ever have been elected or given the authority to do so.

A special Home Ministry team has found that some organisations involved in the protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant had received funds to the tune of over Rs. 55 crore from “foreign sources,” Union Minister V. Narayanasamy said today.

Justice A. K. Ganguly is all set to retire on February 2. You might turn around and ask: so what is the big deal? The significance of his retirement is not lost on anyone who has followed the 2G case and now the ongoing trial.

India is one of the largest buyers of gold in the world. More than 90 per cent of this is for jewellery purposes and not for Industrial purposes. Table 1 gives the purchase of gold for jewellery by different countries in the last few years. In the past, Indian demand was nearly 30 per cent of global consumption. Recently, the attraction of smuggling has come down due to liberalized import policy. Incidentally, domestic production of gold is very negligible, running into a few tonnes.