Letters: Judging it right

This refers to the editorial "Move case along" (May 14). Your solicitude for the Karnataka High Court judge, who apparently committed such an elementary and glaring mistake in calculation of income, is inexplicable. There is nothing new about judges being overworked or judgments running into thousands of pages.

One does not need an army of expert assistants to spot and be vigilant about such errors, which have a critical bearing on the judgment. This is not all. As widely reported, while the defence counsel had a full two months to argue their case, the special public prosecutor was not allowed to present oral arguments at all and had just a day to submit written arguments. Viewing these two together, one is led to wonder if there is something more than meets the eye.

Parthasarathy Chaganty Mumbai

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