Ayodhya Bar boycott: SC has said even the ‘wicked’ have the right to a lawyer

A 2010 judgment of the Supreme Court, refers to Article 22(1) of the Constitution, which mandates that an arrested person should not be ‘denied the right to consult, and to be defended by, a legal practitioner of his choice’
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