ISAS Briefs

The headlines in a national Indian daily on 9 May 2013 — ‘Ecstasy in Karnataka, Agony in SC’ — summed up the Congress party’s plight quite accurately. The good news for the Congress was a convincing electoral victory in the Assembly elections in the southern state of Karnataka; the bad news, however, was the Supreme Court’s scathing criticism of the Congress-led federal government for interfering in the enquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s federal investigating agency, into a coal scam which surfaced in 2012.