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Snapshot of the day

December 7, 2023

Pratik Kanjilal

In the last four months, eight politically sensitive cases in the Supreme Court have been moved around different benches so that have ended up being heard by one judge, Justice Bela Trivedi, or by a bench which she presides over, in violation of court rules. Justice Trivedi had earlier worked for two years as law secretary for the Gujarat government under Narendra Modi when he was chief minister of the state,