Is the solution to past injustice ensuring that justice can’t ever be done in the future, for anyone? Put another way, was a single prominent decision of the now-redundant Constitutional Bench actually constitutional?

A more honest reason is revenge: that it was high time the third branch was put in its place. But those exulting that the judges deserve it seem to be yelling into the abyss: one that saw the quiet retirements of Iftikhar Chaudhry and Saqib Nisar eons ago, and a decline in suo motu ever since.