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Pragmatic activism?

The Supreme Court of India abandoned the persons who were unlawfully detained in the 1976 A.D.M. Jabalpur case during the draconian emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975. Judicial activism was born out of this sin of the Indian superior judiciary, an

Faisal Siddiqi , "Pragmatic activism?," Dawn. 2010-01-13.
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