CIVIL LIBERTIES-Freedom from Exploitation

CIVIL LIBERTIES Freedom from Exploitation A G Noorani THE judgment delivered on September 17 by a Division Bench of the Supreme Court consisting of Justice P N Bhag- wati and Justice Baharul Aslam deserves properly to be evaluated. Unfortunately judgments of the Supreme Court are either denounced or applauded, seldom criticised in the proper sense of the word. This judgment has been uncritically applauded. In very many ways it deserves praise. But there are a couple of aspects which are disturbing, both in themselves and in the trend in the Court which they reflect.