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Men in Black ‘Follow the Money’ as India Top Judge Busts Graft

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India needs “clean men in black robes” to help end corruption, Chief Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia told the Indian Bar Association in an April speech.

The 31-judge Supreme Court he’s led since May 2010 has already risen to his challenge -- ousting the head of India’s anti-graft watchdog, forcing the government to hand out food to the poor, and overseeing probes leading to the jailing of a billionaire executive and a former telecommunications minister.