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R Jagannathan Mumbai
Last Updated : Jan 28 2013 | 2:19 AM IST

While elected governments are not accountable only to taxpayers, the latter have at least the right to ask how efficiently their money is being used

If there is one thing the recent Supreme Court verdict on disinvestment shows, it is this: what we cannot get our politicians to do by force of reason and logic, we can do by moving the courts.

Whether it is anti-pollution laws or justice for the victims of the Gujarat riots, there is still some respect for the verdicts of the higher judiciary. That

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First Published: Sep 23 2003 | 12:00 AM IST

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