Laws exist for the people
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21/02/2006
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Economic Times (New Delhi)
The Supreme Court's directive that all illegal commercial complexes in the Capital's residential areas be shut down is both right and disturbing. Right, because courts are meant to enforce the law. Disturbing, because it confers moral legitimacy on bad, obsolete laws. The city is a living organism, growing, changing, hungering, achieving. City masterplans tend to be static, frozen in time. Unless the masterplan evolves along with the city, it becomes a straitjacket...editorial