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INDIAN EXPRESS / JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE & RIGHT TO DISSENTGS PAPER 4
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Some youths broke their fast with chicken biryani on a boat on the Ganga. For that, they spent three months in jail. A sitting Supreme Court judge stood up at a law school lecture and asked, out loud, why the system let that happen - and whether the courts themselves, through the bail conditions they impose, are quietly teaching citizens not to protest at all.

Sub-topic Ethics in Public Administration - Constitutional Morality and Institutional Self-Scrutiny

Speaking at the 4th Justice G P Singh Memorial Lecture at NLIU Bhopal, Justice Bhuyan criticised the criminalisation of dissent, delayed bail for student protesters, restrictive bail conditions barring public meetings…

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INDIAN EXPRESS / PROPORTIONALITY IN USE OF STATE FORCEGS PAPER 4
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Three protesters were hit by pellets while marching toward Parliament. Weeks later, the chief of the very force that fired those pellets told her own personnel, in a closed-door review, that the level of force used that day did not meet the force's own training standards. That is not an outside allegation. That is the institution indicting itself.

Sub-topic Ethics in Public Administration - Police Ethics and Crowd Control

The Rapid Action Force's internal review of its handling of the July 20 Sansad Chalo march flagged serious lapses, including inadequate briefing, missing safety gear and personnel recently rotated from conflict zones …

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