{
  "id": 17732731,
  "title": "Don’t cover up court failures by freeing convicts, SC tells courts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/dont-cover-up-court-failures-by-freeing-convicts-sc-tells-courts",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-02T02:20:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hindustan Times",
    "slug": "hindustan-times",
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/dont-cover-up-court-failures-by-freeing-convicts-sc-tells-courts-101793560198958.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Supreme Court has cautioned courts against suspending the sentences of people convicted of heinous offences merely because their appeals are unlikely to be heard in the near future, holding that the judiciary’s inability to decide cases quickly cannot become a reason to set convicted criminals free because such an approach puts the “life of civil society at peril” and exposes the “fault…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}