1. Justice Dipak Misra, the Honourable Chief Justice of India, retires on reaching the mandatory retirement age of 65. Justice Ranjan Gogoi is set to be the next CJ of India.
2. The outgoing CJI has given some strong messages to the nation, as he said adieu to the Apex court, and the people of India, as the Cheif Justice of their supreme court, however his political activist style functioning has raised many eyebrows too.
3. Here are some highlights of Cheif Justice Dipak Misra's 'Parting Shots', played extremly well. Although as a citizen of India, I expected him to be tougher on the political class, to clean corruption and criminalization of politics from Bharat, where he failed, but let's thank him for what he achieved.
4. CJI conclusively stated in his last few speeches that In India, Judiciary will remain “Supreme,” now and in future. In essence, political outclassing of 'Constitution, Courts, and Law', will not be allowed to happen. “Truth has no colour,” Said he, hinting that 'Truth' can not be colour coded politically. Justice, in words of CJI, "Must have a human face and a human approach".
5. As parting shots, Justice Misra through his judgements, has made it abundantly clear that women of India are no more a 'Property of Men', and that an Indian citizen's sexual orientation is very much an 'Individual Choice and Right'. He did define the future of religion in New India, by opening up gates of a major temple (Sabarimala) to women, hitherto closed, and also redefined a place of prayer, as being not bound to a compound, and disassociated it from religion/religions, (Further legal debate expected).
6. In one of his last judgements, he ensured that private companies can no more compel citizens to share their biometric information as a precondition. This made Aadhar card supposedly not mandatory in many places, but as noted by journalists MADHAV KHOSLA and ANANTH PADMANABHAN, 'The Supreme Court’s Aadhaar verdict doesn’t even engage with the concerns'.
7. CJI, Misra used his power to fast-track some cases, thereby beating a system at an elite political level, a system that otherwise forces ordinary petitioners to wait decades for a verdict. Also, at the same time he has been accused of selective assignment of cases.
8. Although once, there was an attempt to initiate impeachment proceedings against him, the petition was rejected by India’s vice president, Shri. M. Venkaiah Naidu, on grounds of accusations neither being admissible nor tenable.
9. As a citizen, I thank my nation's outgoing Chief Justice for what ever positive he did to mend the shredded socio-Judicial fabric of India, and hope and pray that his successor will do better than him.
Adieu Honourable Sir.
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©✒Guru Balwant Gurunay.⚔
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