India: summary of 3rd Prof. Iqbal Ansari Memorial Lecture on Communal Violence and the Question of Justice [22 nov 2013]

The crisis in the Indian judicial system is self-evident. The fact that the Supreme Court is forced repeatedly to constitute Special Investigation Teams (SITs) is an admission by the court that the present machinary is complicit and essentially unaccountable. Transfering cases outside the concerned state is also a pointer that in fact it is the law which is running like a refugee, says Vrinda