No greater feeling for a judge than to serve those in need, says outgoing CJI Chandrachud on last working day

Sharing the ceremonial seat constituted successful the outgoing CJI’s honour, Chief Justice Chandrachud said, “It’s been a large honour to beryllium sitting successful this court. When I was young, I would travel and beryllium astatine the extremity of the past enactment successful this court, ticker the greats of the barroom argue, and larn truthful overmuch astir however to argue, however to behave successful court, tribunal craft, however to use substantive cognition of the law.”

Addressing the crowded courtroom, the CJI said, “The 1 origin successful which we are progressive successful this tribunal is the origin of eventual justness to the citizens.”

“We are present arsenic pilgrims, birds of passage. We travel for a abbreviated while, and past we leave. But the enactment which we bash tin either marque oregon mar the institution. Of course, nary of america is that important that you consciousness the tribunal is not going to past without me,” helium said.

CJI Chandrachud pointed retired that “there person been large judges who person travel present successful the past. They person passed connected the baton to succeeding generations. And that’s thing which sustains the institution. Of antithetic radical with divers viewpoints coming to the tribunal and passing the baton along. So I’m definite that, you know, my leaving… is not going to marque the slightest quality to the court. And particularly, due to the fact that I cognize the idiosyncratic who is going to pb this tribunal aft maine is idiosyncratic who is truthful stable, truthful solid, and truthful committed to the origin of justness arsenic Justice Sanjiv Khanna.”

He added, “So I permission the tribunal with a consciousness of happiness that the idiosyncratic who is going to travel and beryllium present for Monday is simply a idiosyncratic who is truthful dignified, truthful alert of the presumption of the tribunal and the wider societal and governmental life, the humanities position of this court.”

Recalling that helium had been sharing the seat with Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra for the past 2 years, CJI Chandrachud said, “Three of america are, successful truthful galore ways, truthful similar, but successful truthful galore ways, we bring to each other’s lives that constituent of diverseness due to the fact that we had specified fantastic times unneurotic connected the bench, cutting jokes, walking the talk, moving very, precise earnestly connected immoderate matters. Even the smallest matter, wherever we had a video conferencing speech with idiosyncratic successful our chambers, it would beryllium ever superior talking — what is champion successful the involvement of that peculiar household oregon that idiosyncratic who was earlier us.”

He added, “But overall, I deliberation conscionable being successful this court, close from, you know, the kid’s courts arsenic we telephone them among the members of the bench, down to the archetypal 5 courts, present the Chief Justice’s court, has been an enormously, enormously sustaining and enriching thing.”

On what keeps him going, the outgoing CJI said, “It is this tribunal which has kept maine going. Because there’s not a azygous time erstwhile you consciousness that you person not learned something, that you person not had an accidental to service society.”

The CJI went on, “There’s nary greater feeling for a justice than to beryllium capable to service those successful request and radical you would ne'er meet, radical you perchance don’t adjacent cognize of, radical whose lives you person the quality to interaction without ever having seen them. That’s the large joyousness and charm of what I followed implicit the past 24 years, done the ups and downs.”

Thanking all, helium said, “Each 1 of you has taught maine truthful overmuch that I didn’t cognize astir law, and much importantly, that I didn’t cognize astir life. Because successful each that each of you said to maine successful the court, I learned truthful overmuch astir life… In each lawsuit that you determine here, you larn truthful overmuch astir what’s happening successful society, what’s happening crossed the nation, and the value of the presumption of this tribunal to prolong the religion of communal citizens successful the enactment which you do.”

Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who was portion of the ceremonial bench, said, “He has near my task casual and tough. Easy due to the fact that helium brought successful truthful galore changes successful infrastructure, accusation technology, etc.”

Justice Khanna added that helium received letters and paintings from children wishing him which shows that what helium has contributed is not confined to the 4 corners of the court.