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India's courts keep speaking. The state keeps not listening.
Within hours on 2 July 2026, two Indian courts handed down stark verdicts against the state — a life sentence for nine policemen over a custodial death, an unusually broad rebuke of protest repression from the Bombay High Court. The pattern is harder to ignore than any single ruling.
Desk note: Two rulings from Indian courts in one afternoon reported by a single national daily — wire-service symmetry in this case meant treating The Indian Express as both event source and structural narrator, with the custodial-death verdict, the Bombay High Court's protest-rights rebuke, and the Gurgaon hit-and-run reporting read together rather than as three discrete stories.
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