The Judiciary I ServedThe Judiciary I Served is an account of an eminent jurist s long and distinguished career in law from his early days as a barrister to his retirement from the Supreme Court of India. An absorbing aspect of this book is the detail of how repeated challenges, minor and major were thrown down at both state and central level, and how upright judges needed to struggle against such pressures in order to uphold the proper functioning of the law. |
Contents
PART II | 42 |
PART III | 85 |
Chief Justice Chandra Reddys Transfer | 115 |
After Becoming Chief Justice | 133 |
Problems and Incidents | 141 |
To the Supreme Court | 149 |
Chairman Commissions | 162 |
The Bank Nationalisation Case | 171 |
The Communal Riots Enquiry | 183 |
Challenges to the Constitution | 205 |
The Keshavananda Bharati Case | 225 |
End of Judicial Tenure | 255 |
Appendix Youthosophy Yorkshires | 284 |
Common terms and phrases
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