Musical chairs
THE petitioners are quite helpless. Yet again, they are being expected to wait while the bench supposed to hear appeals against an earlier Supreme Court ruling on military courts is reconstituted because some of the counsels want more ‘senior judges’ to be hearing the matter. It bears noting that this was already the second bench to have heard the state’s appeals against the unanimous ruling issued by five judges last October, in which the court had held that trying civilians under the opaque military justice system has no justification under the country’s laws. Meanwhile, some 85........
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