Kalpana Wilson, a Birkbeck professor, raised a dissent question during CJI Surya Kant’s lecture on AI and international law before the moderator stopped her for going beyond the topic.
The Supreme Court will examine whether recently accepted definitions and safeguards adequately protect the Aravallis, even as the Centre enforces a mining freeze and environmental groups warn of loopholes enabling degradation of lower hill formations.
CJI Gavai said that the judiciary is bound to intervene when the legislature or the executive fail in their duties to safeguard the rights of the citizens. However, he added that the power of judicial review is to be used by the judiciary in certain exceptional cases.
While the Supreme Court is hearing a petition seeking to include the CJI in the selection committee for Election Commission, vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday questioned how the judiciary can be involved in executive appointments
Speaking at event organised by the VHP on the subject of the UCC, Allahabad High Court Justice Yadav had urged the Muslim community to accept the law like how Hindus had accepted reforms in their personal laws.
Given the overwhelming public support for the Modi govt, left-liberals had been hoping to exploit the verdict of the Supreme Court to their advantage and paint a 'doomsday image' of the state of affairs in India.