| Tuesday, December 26, 2006 |
| Justice K G Balakrishnan is India's first dalit Chief Justice |
Finally, a Dalit is at the top f the judiciary set up in the country. With the appointment of Justice K G Balakrishnan, a senior judge of the Supreme Court, as the 37th Chief Justice of India, the country has honoured a Dalit.
President A P J Abdul Kalam cleared the appointment of 62-year-old Balakrishnan as the new Chief Justice of India on Friday. His tenure will be till May 2010. He succeeds Justice Y K Sabharwal, who retires on January 13, 2007.
The ascent of Justice Balakrishnan to the Supreme Court top post has also given Kerala another laurel. Justice Balakrishnan hails from a poor Dalit family in Kottayam in Kerala.
Starting his career in law way back in 1968 as an advocate, he was appointed munsif in the Kerala Judicial Services in 1973. He later resigned and resumed practice in the Kerala High Court. Come 1985, and he was appointed judge of the Kerala High Court. In 1997, he was transferred to the Gujarat High Court and he took over as Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court in 1998. In 1999, he assumed charge as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. On June 8, 2000 he was elevated to the Supreme Court.
The new Chief Justice of India has many a landmark judgements to his credit, many of them dealing with Constitutional and other matters, criminal laws and public interest litigations (PILs).
Prominent among the landmark judgments is his order declining to show any leniency to two sisters who were found guilty of kidnapping 13 children and murdering nine of them, in Mumbai. He awarded them death sentence.
Justice Balakrishnan was part of the Bench, which held that courts could not interfere in criminal proceedings in PILs and thus gave relief to Railway Minister Lalu Prasad in income tax cases. He had also come down heavily on the practice of High Court judges granting bail to the accused during their visits to prisons.Labels: Society |
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congratulations may god bless you
with best wishes
nabil
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congratulations may god bless you
with best wishes
nabil