In a word of appreciation for the bureaucracy, the court observed, “Although ministers lay down the policy but actual implementation of the policy and day-to-day running of the Government has to be done by the bureaucrats, who are working round-the-clock.”
Deploring the practice of courts “humiliating” senior officials by making them stand during the entire proceedings, Justice Katju noted how officials need not to be made to stand all the time, and they can be offered a chair by the court to sit and need to stand only when answering or making a statement in the court.
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