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Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi : Candid Corner

Description: In our constitutional scheme, an Apex Court order has to be either modified or varied by the court itself or obeyed and implemented or its disobedience visited with contempt. Before doing the secon...

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In our constitutional scheme, an Apex Court order has to be either modified or varied by the court itself or obeyed and implemented or its disobedience visited with contempt. Before doing the second, the Apex Court did give a long rope on the first to successive State and Central Governments. In a sense, the Delhi Government is paying the price for the accumulated inaction of its predecessors. The court’s orders – even apart from strict law and viewed on the touchstone of pragmatism – have to be seen in the context of repeated and generous time limits granted, not complied with and successively extended.