No, Mr Prime Minister. '5-star activists' actually help

April 17, 2015 12:33

Prabhat Patnaik, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Economic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is outraged at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remark that 'the judiciary should be cautious about delivering perception-driven verdicts, especially when the perceptions were sourced from 'five-star activists'.

Writing in the Telegraph, Kolkata, he points out: 'These so-called "five-star" activists actually play the role of keeping people's faith in the legal system intact; and here the very fact that the judiciary has not cultivated the distrust towards their perceptions that Modi would like it to, and has therefore often given verdicts in their favour, has helped. Had this not been the case, the tendency for some people to take the law into their own hands and to embark on extreme measures to counter the injustice done to them would have been far more pronounced.'

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