Research Fellow, IDSA, Col DPK Pillay’s article on Dangari Killings, titled ‘Dangari Killings: Defending injustice a greater crime’ was published in ‘The Economic Times’ on October 16, 2018.
In democracies like India, the approach is to establish the primacy of human life and dignity over everything else. What is at stake here is not justice in stray incidents of extrajudicial killings but the fundamental principles of a democratic, secular and liberal state, writes Col Pillay.