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After his retirement, Justice Radhakrishnan headed a sheet that recommended steps to trim overcrowding successful jails and amended wellness conditions of inmates. (Express record photograph by Karma Sonam Bhutia)
Known for laying down a roadmap for situation reforms successful Maharashtra and advocating quality rights causes, Justice S Radhakrishnan (78), a erstwhile justice of the Bombay High Court, passed distant astatine Kokilaben Ambani Hospital successful the metropolis connected Tuesday greeting pursuing complications arising retired of a surgery. After his retirement, Justice Radhakrishnan headed a sheet that recommended steps to reduce overcrowding successful jails and amended wellness conditions of inmates.
Born connected December 25, 1946, Justice Radhakrishnan had pursued B Sc and LLB and stood archetypal successful the LLM people of Mumbai University. He enrolled arsenic an advocator connected October 15, 1971 and practiced earlier the Bombay High Court successful constitutional, civil, labour, criminal, institution and work matters and specialised successful civilian writ matters involving law and administrative law. He was designated arsenic elder advocator successful December 1991.
He besides taught law law, administrative law, nationalist planetary instrumentality and property laws for LLB and LLM students for implicit a decennary earlier his assignment arsenic further justice of Bombay HC connected April 15, 1996. He was made imperishable justice successful April, 1998 and helium served arsenic HC justice for astir 12 years until helium retired successful December 2008. He received Doctorate successful Human Rights during his judicial career.
After his retirement, Justice Radhakrishnan served arsenic the chairperson of the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT) from 2009 to 2014.
In 2017, connected directions from the High Court, Maharashtra authorities constituted a five-member committee headed by Justice Radhakrishnan (Retd) to look into situation reforms and modernisation successful the state.
As per Justice Radhakrishnan (Retd) panel’s report, till April 2018, 73% of full situation inmates successful Maharashtra consisted of undertrial prisoners and astatine Arthur Road jailhouse (Mumbai cardinal prison), the fig of inmates was 3 times much than the sanctioned capacity.
The sheet besides recommended repairs successful women’s situation and said that precedence beryllium fixed for women prisoners to conscionable their children who are extracurricular and besides directed play OPDs consisting of gynaecologists and paediatricians.
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In 2019, the High Court had formed a three-member committee headed by retired justice Justice Radhakrishnan for disposal and organisation of proceeds connected precedence to PMC Bank depositors. The tribunal had ordered constitution of the sheet connected the PIL seeking the nationalist auction of each assets of debt-ridden Housing Development Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) either mortgaged with the crisis-hit PMC Bank oregon attached by the Economic Offences Wing, Mumbai.
He volition beryllium cremated connected Wednesday day astatine a crematorium adjacent Teachers Colony, Bandra (East).
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