TAKE a good cause to court and what can you hope to get? Only as much as the law can give you. Even as concern over the environment has continued to grow, winning verdicts against offenders needs clever lawyers as much, or perhaps even more, than activists with heart.
Ritwick Dutta, 47, and Rahul Choudhary, 47, have the distinction of being both activists and savvy lawyers at the same time. They have won several landmark verdicts, one of the most significant being against the mining rights given to Vedanta in Odisha.
The secret of their success in court is. . .