Readers’ comments: On Ali Khan Mahmudabad and MP minister, can’t judges understand Hindi or English?

What a wonderful straight forward judge of the Supreme Court (“Why Bela Trivedi retired from Supreme Court as a deeply unpopular judge”). I respect her honesty. My salute to her. – K Shanmugam

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She might have been lenient with respect to the BJP. But if Kapil Sibal is against a judge, it speaks volumes about the honesty and integrity of that judge. The Supreme Court has been too liberal and inconsistent. It has behaved like an opposition party. – V Ravi Narayanan

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Justice Bela Trivedi was popular only with the BJP and the RSS. – Umakant Pawaskar

Ali Khan Mahmudabad

While listening to this discussion, I read the two posts by Professor Khan (“Video: Is Ali Khan Mahmudabad’s peace appeal seditious?”). I am stunned by what Justice Surya Kant wrote in the operative part of his order: that in order to “holistically understand the complexity of phraseology” of those two posts, he is directing the director general of police, Haryana, to constitute a Special Investigation Team.

Is the English language used in those two posts beyond the comprehension of a learned judge of the Supreme Court?

Will the police officers who constitute the SIT be experts in the English language? This judge, who appoints police officers to interpret the English language for him before he does...

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