Although in a democracy, the government is elected by the majority, individual rights cannot be dented by any kind of majoritarian social philosophy, said former Chief Justice of India Justice Dipak.
Retiring Allahabad High Court Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker on Tuesday said his transfer from Chhattisgarh High Court to Allahabad High Court in 2018 by the Collegium headed by then CJI Dipak Misra was ill-intentioned.
Some FIRs were filed for crimes which allegedly took place decades ago. Bail files have been inexplicably lost. Cases have bafflingly been assigned to wrong judges.
In his autobiography “Justice for the Judge”, Justice Ranjan Gogoi reveals that the judges’ press conference about the functioning of the Supreme Court in 2018 was a "spur of the moment" decision.
The Supreme Court Thursday said it has to find the context in which the five-judge bench had delivered the 1994 judgement that a mosque was not integral to Islam which arose during the hearing of Ayodhya land dispute.