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Though set to lose CJI impeachment case, Kapil Sibal won't stop trying

Congress party is internally divided between those who feel the impeachment of the Chief Justice of India is right and those who feel it isn't

Though set to lose CJI impeachment case, Kapil Sibal won't stop trying
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"There are many GST tax slabs- 0. 25, 03, 05, 12, 18, and 28 percent. The sad part is that apart from the GST the state governments are required to also levy municipal tax," Sibal said. Photo: ANI

Aditi Phadnis New Delhi
It takes a certain kind of lawyer to take on the top echelons of the judiciary. Kapil Sibal likes fine art, writes poetry and is a music aficionado. But he doesn’t turn away from butting heads as well. 

Sibal has been a lawyer for more than 40 years now and still remembers the day he fought — and lost — his first case. He got his first brief, an election petition from a politician from Meham in Haryana. The politician had contested the election and had won it, switching sides after winning — but the election was set aside on eight

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