A lawyer friend donned the mantle of a Devil’s Advocate and sought to justify the Court’s latest queries by posing four questions. These are questions which must also be plaguing the mind of the average citizen (not lawyers, because they have all the answers!) and therefore it would be useful to consider them.I reproduce them below, along with my response to them:1 If farmers have moved the Supreme Court, what is the point of continuing with the protests? The matter is sub-judice, how then can the protests continue?The answer to this is pretty simple, but since there is no politically correct way to say it, here it goes: the protests are continuing because the farmers (like large swathes of the citizenry) have lost faith in the Supreme Court. The credibility of the court has never been lower than it has been over the last few years. This is primarily because of the perception that it is reluctant to confront the government, that all major decisions have of late gone in favour of the government, and where that is not possible the matters are simply kept in limbo.Secondly, the protesting groups of farmers under the umbrella of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, have not gone to the Supreme Court. Six petitions challenging the three farm laws have been filed by the Bharatiya Kisan Union, one DMK Member of Parliament, one RJD MP, the Chhattisgarkh Kisan Congress, and a couple of others, but not by the SKM.
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