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samarth — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:00:47 +0000

I agree to Arghya. Seniority of a judge has been very precisely discribed. It isn’t subjected to such a Faux Pas.

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Wed, 03 Jul 2013 15:16:42 +0000

[...] Former SC justice Ruma Pal was the third woman judge ever to reach the SC, she retired in 2006 narrowly missing being made the first woman Chief Justice of India by a day’s margin. The Calcutta HC has had only 10 women judges in the last 150 years. [...]

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The Basic Structure Doctrine: An insider’s view | Critical Twenties — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:28:14 +0000

[...] that they carried to the Bench (as illustrated by Andhyarujina), not to mention the subsequent supersessions, all give us some perspective on the whys of the Second Judges and Third Judges cases as [...]

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Adbaaz — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:08:43 +0000

Justice Jaffer Imam was a great judge! He aws wrongfully bypassed because Gajendragadkar was pro-govt. always.

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Abdaal — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:08:54 +0000

There was also Jaffer Imam, J. in the sixties who was superseded by Justice Ganjendragadkar. Of course the Hon’ble Imam, J. was widely believed to be suffering from some sort of ‘mental infirmity’ (as Ganjendragadkar J. put it in his autobiography) that led to his dozing off on the bench, blanking out during court proceedings and not handing in his judgments on time.

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[...] Justice Gyan Sudha Misra, however, reaches the opposite conclusion. She begins by saying that, “While there is no difficulty in accepting the position that law and morality might stand on a different footing although they are inextricably linked in my perception, yet I agree that legal decision cannot be based purely on morality”. On the belief in the marriage, she says that “although no ceremony of marriage took place between them, but as per social custom prevailing in the District of Lohardaga among the members of the Oraon community, if a young man lives with a young girl in his house for a long period, she is deemed to be his wife which is recognized as marriage”. She also mentions that the voter lists in the area in the early 1980s mentioned them as husband and wife, and also the fact that they had solemnized the birth ceremony of their children. [...]

By: kabir

kabir — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:09:46 +0000

Nice piece of work, Alok.. Bring on more of the ‘wide-eyed supreme court fact-ion’, too!