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What has been witnessed in recent times is the almost total abandonment by the Pakistan Supreme Court Judges of their solemn duty of upholding the Pakistan Constitution, e.g. Article 224(2) thereof, and of protecting the liberties and rights of the people, ten thousand of whom, including former Prime Minister Imran Khan, are in jail in…
I recently gave an interview online to a Pakistani journalist, Sohrab Barkat of siasat.pk, which is below There were over 670 comments on Youtube after the interview was displayed. Among these were some comments, probably from Pakistanis, that I should be made Chief Justice of Pakistan ( CJP ). The possibility is remote, but if…
Rahul Gandhi”s recent speech in the Lok Sabha during the no confidence motion proceedings on Manipur is being hailed by some as historical, as if it were a speech of Demosthenes, Cicero, Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill.or Martin Luther King Junior In his speech Rahul talked a lot about his Bharat Jodo Yatra (…
A lawyer friend of mine , who is now no more, was a few years older than me. He told me this story when I was a lawyer in Allahabad. In the late 1950s a Convocation was held in the Allahabad University. In this function some University students, including my friend, put a garland of…
Many years back I was invited by the then Vice Chancellor of JNU ( Jawaharlal Nehru University ), Delhi for dinner along with about a dozen Professors of the University I was told that the budget of the University Grants Commission was Rs.41,000 crore in the Five Year plan, and the annual budget of JNU…
By Justice KatjuIn the first half of the 20th century divorce was almost unknown in India. In fact it was not even legally permitted among Hindus ( it was first permitted by the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 ), and even among Muslims, for whom it was permitted by the sharia law, it was very rare….
By Justice Katju Whenever a bomb blast occurs in India there is great pressure by politicians and the public on the police to solve the crime. The problem for our police is that it is not usually trained in scientific investigation nor is given the equipment for the same, so it can rarely catch the…
Indian Independence Day, 15th August, is approaching, and on this occasion I appeal to the Indian Govt to bestow the nation’s highest award, the Bharat Ratna, on Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis, who went to China in 1938 with an Indian medical mission to help the Chinese in their fight against Imperialist Japan, and died there 4…
A BJP MP Ajay Pratap Singh has called for banning live-in relationships https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bjp-mp-calls-for-ban-on-live-in-relationships-8862180/ https://thewire.in/rights/bjp-mp-calls-for-ban-on-live-in-relationships-to-protect-women His argument is that though the Indian Supreme Court has said that such relationships are not illegal, it has also said that they are not approved by the majority in Indian society. Thus in Khushboo vs Kanniammal the Supreme Court observed…
One day on a nice summer evening a little girl called Alice was dozing on a green meadow when she saw a white rabbit wearing a blue coat running on his two legs, looking at a watch, and saying ” I am late ”. The rabbit jumped into a hole in the ground, and Alice…