The Supreme Court needs to step in and read out the riot act to the honourable justices of Madras High Court for their instructions to the National Highways Authority of India to ensure separate lanes for VIPs ‘including sitting judges’ at tolls. It is against the very spirit of democratic equality as well as the Supreme Court’s own drive to eradicate VIP culture in the country. It is segregationist and unacceptable. India’s higher judiciary must take serious note.
