India’s Supreme Court is Complicit in Modi Government’s Crackdown on Activists, Say Whistleblowers, Lawyers, Victims
“The judicial system has turned anti-poor, anti-Dalit, anti-Muslim, anti-women, anti-indigenous people,” said activist Himanshu Kumar, who has faced arrest since the Supreme Court last month dismissed his petition seeking an investigation into the killing of 17 adivasis (indigenous people) by security forces in Chhattisgarh state in 2009.
The Supreme Court’s Kafkaesque ruling against Kumar has been widely criticized as it is based on submissions from the police, the agency accused of committing the crimes. Instead of questioning the police, the Court ruled without evidence that Kumar had lied.