Supreme Court order on farm laws: None to praise and very few to love it

The order illustrates the axiom, that Indian judiciary's idea of justice is that when two people fight in court over a 100 rupee note, the judge tears it up into two and gives each person a half

The Supreme Court's judgment on the farmers' agitation, is an interim order that, like Wordsworth's Lucy, has none to praise, and very few to love it. The government side thinks that judges have overstepped the traditional doctrine of separation of powers, by interdicting legislation without a final ruling on constitutionality. The agitating farmers accept the stay on implementation of the farm acts, but have rejected the grievance committee offered, as they suspect it to be partisan in composition. To add to the negation, even a member of the committee, has now recused from its membership.

The court's order on the