“Our courts have stopped asking why”, TheDossier, 27 Sep 2026.
“I’m scared you won’t get justice if tomorrow you find yourself standing in a court of law. Scared because the court now, it seems, isn’t interested in weighing why something happened. My worry stems from the case against senior journalist and author Ajeet Bharti under the SC/ST Act, filed by Balakram Bauddh, Delhi State President of the Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram), over remarks Bharti made during a YouTube live stream.
During the stream, Gulvinder Singh wrote: “Ajeet Bharti, get your sister married to MP Chandrashekhar, and reservation will come to an end.” To this, Bharti obviously got angry and said: “Singh ji, if you have got your sister or mother married to a Dom or a Chamar, that’s fine. However, my sister is quite comfortable in life… Further, just because Chandrashekhar is a Chamar and an MP, he doesn’t become a good fit for marriage…”
The exchange didn’t end there. It got uglier, and Bharti’s anger spilled onto Chandrashekhar’s face and back onto Singh’s own sister and mother, the same coin Singh had started paying in. That is what rage sounds like when someone has just put your sister on a live chat as a bargaining chip. And that rage, where it came from, is exactly what the court refused to look at.
The clip went viral. Bauddh complained, and an FIR was registered at North Avenue police station under the SC/ST Act, the IT Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Bharti sought anticipatory bail. The Patiala House Court refused it on September 7. He went to the Delhi High Court. On September 24, the High Court refused it too……….”
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