Without going into the quality of criminal investigations, it is safe to conclude that those at the top are increasingly under scrutiny. Many lower courts are punishing even the most powerful without mercy; and the higher courts are mostly uncompromising too. This democratization of the legal process is what Tihar’s prisoner demographics represent: the son of a senior political leader who owns a sprawling business empire, a senior police officer who once worked in the office of the prime minister, a former chief minister of Haryana, a couple of god men with millions of followers, among others.
