Who is the most powerful person in India? Manmohan Singh, the 79-year-old prime minister whose second term has been a washout? Not likely. Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born torchbearer of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty? Possibly. How about S.H. Kapadia? Who, you might ask, is S.H. Kapadia? Well, he is chief justice of the supreme court, which this month set all of India chattering when it revoked 122 second-generation (2G) mobile licences. The court, which declared a spectrum sale in 2008 “arbitrary and unconstitutional”, ordered the regulator to reallocate the licences by auction in four months.
誰是印度權勢最大的人？是第二任期已經慘敗、現年79歲的總理曼莫漢?辛格(Manmohan Singh)？不太可能。是出生于意大利、尼赫魯?甘地(Nehru-Gandhi)王朝的領軍人物索尼婭?甘地(Sonia Gandhi)？有這種可能。是卡帕迪亞(S H Kapadia)嗎？你可能會問，卡帕迪亞是誰？好吧，他是印度最高法院首席法官，本月，該法院取消了122張2G移動牌照，這在整個印度掀起了軒然大波。印度最高法院裁定2008年的頻譜拍賣為“武斷的且違反了憲法”，命令監管機構通過拍賣，在4個月內重新分配這些牌照。