Inglorious retreat: On the Supreme Court and cow vigilantism | The Hindu Editorial

​Inglorious retreat: On the Supreme Court and cow vigilantism | The Hindu Editorial

The Supreme Court of India has washed its hands of the responsibility to enforce its own guidelines of 2018 to prevent and punish mob violence in the name of cow protection. The trajectory of this case over the years had foretold this outcome, and fits within a disturbing pattern of judicial diffidence in the face of majoritarian politics.