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.
谁是印度权势最大的人？是第二任期已经惨败、现年79岁的总理曼莫汉•辛格(Manmohan Singh)？不太可能。是出生于意大利、尼赫鲁•甘地(Nehru-Gandhi)王朝的领军人物索尼娅•甘地(Sonia Gandhi)？有这种可能。是卡帕迪亚(S H Kapadia)吗？你可能会问，卡帕迪亚是谁？好吧，他是印度最高法院首席法官，本月，该法院取消了122张2G移动牌照，这在整个印度掀起了轩然大波。印度最高法院裁定2008年的频谱拍卖为“武断的且违反了宪法”，命令监管机构通过拍卖，在4个月内重新分配这些牌照。