Constitution behind India’s transformative journey: CJI Sanjiv Khanna

CJI Khanna reminded that the Constitution is simply a mode of beingness that has to beryllium lived up to. “We renew our pledge to beryllium trustees and custodians of the Constitution. It is simply a tribute to its enduring bequest and the contiguous aboriginal committedness to the ultimate substance which we indispensable commemorate,” helium said.

The Bar, helium said, is arsenic overmuch portion of the judiciary and lawyers lend to the Judiciary arsenic they go the spokesperson of aggrieved citizens.

“We often notation to the judiciary arsenic persons successful robes; that is the judges. But the judiciary arsenic represents the Bar. I cannot visualise the judiciary wherever the members of the Bar are not portion and parcel of it. Judges travel from the barroom and spell backmost to the bar… The amended the bar, the amended the judges. There is different mode the barroom contributes to the judiciary. You go the spokesperson and the archetypal idiosyncratic to whom the citizens travel and repose faith,” the CJI told the lawyers.

CJI lawyers pointed retired the “You are the ones who travel and contiguous a lawsuit earlier us. You are the ones who constituent retired the ineligible principles and assistance america adjudicate. Therefore, it is said, judges radiance successful reflected glory. I cannot ideate any, adjudicatory strategy successful India wherever the Bar does not lend and assistance america adjudicate and decide”, the CJi added.

CJI Khanna pointed retired that “lawyers successful the Supreme Court person different relation to play. You beryllium to antithetic parts of the country. You travel to Delhi, you go portion and parcel of the unified judicial strategy which the apex tribunal represents. I person immensely benefited from the judges from antithetic portion of the country, their antithetic thought processes, the mode they look astatine things, and the ineligible principles they person been drawn and brought up with.”

Recalling that the SC has taken “decisions close from biology laws, privateness laws, cardinal rights, the basic operation doctrine”, the CJI said “Many of these decisions, I bash not think, would person been imaginable without the publication and the efforts of the members of the Bar. We, therefore, necessitate the members of the barroom to travel up to the principles and ideals acceptable retired successful the charter of the law day.”