In court, what is always looked
for is the objectivity manifested with the evidence and circumstances of a
particular case. There is seldom any space for subjectivity or humanitarian
concerns instead; it is all about evidence and findings based out of the studies
undertaken by an expert group or an empowered committee on any controversial
issues or of pertaining to a large segment of the society. In the Mullaperiyar dam
case, the court should have gone beyond the fabricated veracity of facts presented
by plaintiff, Tamil Nadu, and looked into the subjective reality too.
