Shekhar Gupta: Indian judiciary and law of Habeas Porcus

It's the prime responsibility of judiciary to ensure our liberty and habeas corpus is the usual route. But 'bail, not jail' is being murdered and cremated routinely

The headline of this week’s National Interest isn’t a typing mistake. Neither is it a reference to any meat someone may detest or relish. If it sounds like a rude cheap shot, it is because it’s intended to be so. It is inspired by a real-life parallel, to make an important point at a time when in our judicial system, the original dictum — bail is the rule, jail an exception — has been reversed.

Ask any crime reporter worth her knowledge of the IPC, what do police officers say in private about the tactic tried, tested and perfected over decades