Bureaucrats can’t be allowed to frustrate grassroot democracy: Supreme Court

New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI) The Supreme Court has said bureaucrats couldn’t be allowed to “frustrate grassroot democracy” and upheld a Bombay High Court order reinstating a woman as the sarpanch of a Maharashtra village. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh said it noticed several recent instances from the state where bureaucrats misbehaved with the elected representa