Can a serving bureaucrat criticise judgement of the Supreme Court?

Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant criticises SC for asking government to review green nod to Goa's second airport

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On March 29, the Supreme Court suspended the environmental clearance to build Goa's second airport. In a rarity, one of the government's top bureaucrat, Niti Aayog's Chief Executive Officer, Amitabh Kant wrote an opinion piece in a newspaper on April 15 criticising the Supreme Court for its judgement (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/et-commentary/the-need-to-mope-about-mopa/). He said the Supreme Court had stepped in to retrospectively put a 'complete stop' to a key infrastructure project. By doing so, Kant said, the court set a dangerous precedent. He concluded that the judgement would come at a significant cost to