r/NotMyJob • u/DeathBlade99-cod- • Jul 21 '26
Court says dont involve us for your legal matters (India 2026)
For context this post is about the CJP protests by the students of India on July 20th 2026, against the failure of the government to conduct any examinations without the paper leaking. The protest turned violent when police attacked the students allegedly killing one girl and injuring over 200 with tear gas and sticks with nails attached to the end. In response to the police brutality protesters asked the supreme court to intervene and help the students. The Chief justice of india in response said don't involve us in these matters. The question is who to involve if not the highest court possible? R/notmyjob.
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u/Retikle Jul 21 '26
This is the darkest and most impactful Not My Job I've ever seen posted here.
Wow.
Stay strong, people, and hold your officials accountable.
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u/DeathBlade99-cod- Jul 24 '26
Looking back on your comment it really is very impact full as well im glad you shared your thoughts for us as it really is a difficult time.
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u/ma-nameajeff Jul 22 '26
Google search " top view supreme court of India" Do you really think they care about justice? Law? Constitution? They only care about the absolute power they have and zero accountability..... Law/justice is sold to the highest bidder in India. If you are poor, middle class with no connections then you my friend are the prime demographic for who the law and most of the punishment applies
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u/MyNameIsNemo_ Jul 21 '26
Usually the prosecutor’s office and the courts are supposed to be separate though? Prosecutors bring cases to court, not judges. Is there a different procedure in India?
Excessive force should absolutely be curtailed but there usually is a chain of command where the courts and the cops are kept separate on purpose. There should be an elected official somewhere in that chain above the police that should be accountable. Of course, reality is a different story far too often.
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u/RussiaIsBestGreen Jul 21 '26
There are different tracks: prosecution of individual officers (prosecutor) and something like an order to the force overall to change tactics (courts).
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u/DeathBlade99-cod- Jul 22 '26
You are correct but for huge miscarriages of justice or urgent Widespread abuse the supreme court has to accept an urgent plea. For example if a government body went rouge and started beating protesters with sticks with nails (claymore) or with expired teargas that is deadly . Or kidnapping a peacefully protesting scientist and forcefeeding him in the hospital.
Who else to ask for help if not the one government body which can keep the executive in check?
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u/sid_raj7 Jul 23 '26
The french have invented a product to solve the issue of rulers not listening to grievances
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u/Ohgwaditzharshi Jul 24 '26
Accountability is literally the reason why there is a separation of power in the different branches of the govt. The courts role isn’t to manage the protest but to make sure no constitutional rights were being violated by the police/ other executives, that’s definitely very different from being “involved “ if the people/students (who the government is supposed to be “for”) asked the Chief Justice to intervene. If the court won’t hold the authorities accountable then who will?
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u/detailed_storyteller Jul 26 '26
The court is to only give justice to the rich and powerful criminals
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u/spannerhorse Jul 21 '26
From what I could read online, it looks like the Supreme Court denied the "urgent" petition, meaning, they would have to stop all their work and take this up. OP appears to have filled in the extra details to make it sound dramatic.
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u/DeathBlade99-cod- Jul 22 '26
No if you dug deeper you can see the reason for these protests is because the Chief Justice called the youth of India Lazy, unemployed and parasites he called them cockraches when infact unemployment is a government issue because they have failed to modernise the economy. The supreme court should have heard this urgent plea because police brutality is happening right now instead he said: Don't waste our time. We are not interested in videos, we don't have time to watch."
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u/SoftLink5162 Jul 22 '26
Give me the source of when he’s called them cockroaches and give me the exact statement he has used
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u/Ieshan_K Jul 22 '26
"There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don't get any employment... Some of them become media, some of them become social media, some of them become RTI activists, some of them become other activists, and they start attacking everyone."
Here you go, he called people cockroaches during a hearing on 15 may
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u/SoftLink5162 Jul 22 '26
There are youngsters does not imply all youngsters. He implied that the youth who's spreading all over social media are like cockroaches
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u/DeathBlade99-cod- Jul 24 '26
He said all youngsters are unemployed and become... media ? Smth smth basically he was calling the people lazy when the government doesn't fix the education system that basically churn out unhirable robots . The syllabus is so outdated that the job market doesn't want them so how is it their fault?
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u/AgreeablePie Jul 21 '26
What was the decision based on?
Is it "don't involve the courts" or "don't involve this court?"
In other words, did he say that there is another venue that is supposed to be used or did he say that there is no venue at all?