Limitation Period

A road crash is a moment of shattering finality. A life is lost, a limb broken, a family’s financial bedrock turned to sand. But for a brief, bewildering period in India’s legal history, the trauma of the physical accident was swiftly followed by a secondary, equally devastating blow: the guillotine of a six-month deadline. This past week, in an interim order that is far more than a technical footnote, the Supreme Court of India intervened to halt the mechanical, merciless operation of this...