Need safeguards against 'state' violence

Fairness in regulatory trials might be some way off in a society that makes movies on "encounters" and has wide following of gurus who philosophise abject violence

The use of sealed envelopes in court proceedings for a court to examine material that is not available to all parties before it, is now part of drawing room conversation in India. The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Rafale litigation was substantially based on a reading of material presented to the court by the government in a sealed envelope with the other parties not having a chance to review the content, or to present arguments on it. 

The court appears to have taken at face value the document presented in a sealed envelope. In a nutshell, the court believed that the