Well-intentioned court, toothless verdicts threaten Uttarakhand's ecology

The concluding part of a three-part series looks at why the HC's rulings are dismissed so often

With the recent lifting of a ban on mining in Uttarakhand, its fragile ecology is being threatened like never before. The concluding part of a three-part series looks at why the high court’s rulings are dismissed so often.

When the Supreme Court (SC) on April 10 upturned a Uttarakhand High Court ruling that had banned all mining in the state for the next four years, it raised a burning question.  Why are so many of the Uttarakhand HC’s rulings are being either dismissed by the SC or simply disregarded? The answers may lie in the nature of HC’s rulings, which