‘Justice is sometimes a farce,’ goes a well-worn axiom. This can now be expanded to include justice as an ecological farce, which would have found its place in the history of India’s jurisprudence had the Supreme Court not stepped in earlier this week.

The SC bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria expressed shock and set aside the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court of April 29, which suspended the life imprisonment sentence and granted bail to two convicts guilty of murder on the condition that the duo plant ten saplings each.

The life imprisonment sentence had been read out by the trial court earlier when the two were found guilty under Sections 302........

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