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Gautam Bhatia

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Safoora Zargar and Disha Ravi: Similar cases, vastly different verdicts

The state case in each case was remarkably similar but the verdicts reflect two starkly opposed judicial approaches to the question of personal liberty.

Gautam Bhatia
· Feb 26, 2021 · 07:30 am
In Gautam Bhatia’s novel, a woman tries to cross a wall that has enclosed her city for 2000 years

An excerpt from Bhatia’s speculative fiction novel, ‘The Wall’.

Gautam Bhatia
· Sep 03, 2020 · 05:30 pm
In denying bail to Safoora Zargar, Delhi court stretches facts and uses metaphors in place of law

The flawed reasoning was used to justify keeping a pregnant woman in an overcrowded prison in the middle of a nationwide pandemic.

Gautam Bhatia
· Jun 05, 2020 · 01:07 pm

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