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Watch | What Indian Courts Can Learn from the UK on Curbing a PM’s Misuse of Power

Indian courts have so far seen no reason not to side with the government even when faced with petitioners pleading recourse when it comes to the Article 370 decision and recent human rights violations in Kashmir.
Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Sep 26 2019
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Indian courts have so far seen no reason not to side with the government even when faced with petitioners pleading recourse when it comes to the Article 370 decision and recent human rights violations in Kashmir.
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After UK's Prime Minister Boris Johnson dissolved the British parliament, the UK Supreme Court called the decision unconstitutional.

In India, however, numerous petitions are pending in the court regarding the removal of Article 370 from Kashmir. The Wire's senior editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani explains what Indian courts can learn from the British courts.

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