In episode 11 of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Leena Reghunath are joined by TNM’s senior journalist Nandini Chandrashekar, investigative journalist  Poonam Agarwal and lawyer Anup Surendranath.  The first topic they discuss is the differing judgments in two legal cases, one from West Bengal and one from Kerala. Why did a judge give Sanjay Roy life imprisonment in the RG Kar case and why did another judge give Greeshma the death penalty in the Sharon Raj murder?   

Anup argues that the RG Kar judgment is a better interpretation of the law. He says that the judge in this case is aware of what the Supreme Court has said about when to choose life imprisonment and when to choose the death penalty. Anup says that this was not done in the Greeshma case.  He believes that the judge had a "shocking ignorance" of what the Supreme Court requires, and that the judge "cherry picked" the judgments that he liked. 

Leena says that the public are trigger happy and many times judgements are a reflection of this.

On PM Cares, Poonam questions why financial statements have not been made public. “Why do we need to know these details?  Because donations were made by us as well.  As a citizen, many people donated during COVID.”   

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Audio Timecodes 

00:00:00:00 - Introductions

00:00:43:00 - Announcements

00:02:40:00- Headlines

00:07:15:00 -  RG Kar and Greeshma case

00:48:28:00 - PM Cares secrecy

01:14:14:00 - Recommendations

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