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Supreme Court vindication of Manmohan Singh should initiate reform of criminal justice system: Ashwani Kumar
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The Hindu Bureau
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Senior advocate Ashwani Kumar has called for criminal justice reform following the Supreme Court's exoneration of the late former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He argued that the prosecution process itself served as a form of punishment and criticized the impact of media trials on public figures.
The Supreme Court’s “decisive and merited vindication” of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an “utterly untenable” criminal prosecution should prompt a wider reckoning with the country’s criminal justice system, senior advocate and former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar said on Thursday (July 30, 2026).
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