Justice delayed is often described as justice denied. In the case of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, justice came not merely delayed but posthumously. Eleven years after the coal block allocation case was registered against him, and 19 months after his death, the Supreme Court has finally and unequivocally exonerated him.

It is a verdict that restores his honour, but it cannot erase the suffering inflicted upon him. Few public figures in modern India have enjoyed the reputation for personal honesty that he did.

In the biographical book Strictly Personal, his daughter, Daman Singh, recalls that while he was Governor of the RBI, he kept a notebook beside the official residential telephone so that his wife and daughters could record every........

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