Justice Sanjiv Khanna 'belongs to that school of legal luminaries who give the highest primacy to facts.'
We don't recall ever seeing photographs of a Supreme Court judge being sworn in, which is why we are sharing glimpses of Monday's ceremony at the highest court in the land with you.
Think you know all about the former Chief Justice of India, whom the Modi government nominated to the Rajya Sabha?
India celebrates December 16 as Vijay Diwas to commemorate the military victory over Pakistan in 1971.
'Nobody expected it to become a landmark judgment.' 'Because the Supreme Court has expanded the definition of family and included single parents, same sex parents, etc, the scope of looking at families has enhanced.'
It is not just the weak who are harmed by the judicial process's failure to grant bail. Any high profile person can be made to spend weeks in jail while the arresting authority shouts and preens for the TV cameras, says Vir Sanghvi.
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