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India can't have a dual judicial system for rich and poor, says the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Thursday said India can not have a dual judicial machine -- one for the wealthy and the alternative for the poor, and pulled up Madhya Pradesh Police for attempting to shield Govind Singh, the husband of a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA, accused of murdering Congress leader Devendra Chourasia.


A bench headed through Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said the judiciary need to stay loose from political pressures and influences.



The pinnacle court docket cancelled Singh's bail noting that there has been an abject failure of the police to finish the investigation into the murder.


The court docket took a strong objection to the fact that police officers attempted to pressurize the trial courtroom choose to defend the accused. The pinnacle court talked about that the Madhya Pradesh Police were complicit in defensive Singh from arrest, and also pulling up state DGP for state of being inactive of the police force.


The deceased Congress leader's son had submitted that the trial court choose changed into being pressured by using the BSP MLA. The top court docket mentioned, "Independence of judiciary is the independence of every and every decide, in order that they're unbiased of their superiors also. Colonial mindset meted out to district judiciary has to change".


Singh turned into arrested via the police on May 28, after the top courtroom had given a deadline to the Madhya Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) on April five.


The pinnacle court on March 26, had located that an effort changed into made to protect the accused after the DGP had stated that no matter court docket order, police have been not capable of arrest him.

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