Underlining the function of public establishments which are enshrined within the Structure, Supreme Courtroom choose Justice P S Narasimha on Sunday mentioned that “fourth department establishments (such because the EC, CAG, Union and State Public Service Commissions, and Nationwide Commissions for SCs, STs, and OBCs) shouldn’t be retirement properties for civil servants and judges”.
“Area experience and capability constructing are fixed casualties in institutional construction. Range in composition can also be neglected in lots of circumstances. You will need to realise fourth department establishments can’t be retirement properties for civil servants and judges,” he mentioned.
Justice Narasimha was delivering the second version of the Justice ES Venkataramiah Centennial Memorial Lecture organised by Nationwide Regulation College of India College in Bengaluru.
Talking on the importance of the Election Fee, Justice Narasimha mentioned the framers of the Structure intentionally ensured that elections had been performed by a physique that was utterly “outdoors the Govt”.
“On reflection, we will conceive the disasters if this had not been accomplished. I’m amazed by the foresight of our Structure makers to allow the appointment of such various Election Commissioners, over and above the Chief Election Commissioner, to represent the Fee,” he mentioned.
Former CJI ES Venkataramiah’s daughter and Supreme Courtroom choose Justice B V Nagarathna additionally spoke on the occasion. She recalled a number of judgments of her father in landmark circumstances, together with the Indian Specific Newspapers (Bombay) (P) Ltd. v. Union of India, on press freedom.
“So long as the Courtroom sits, newspapermen needn’t have the worry of their freedom being curtailed by unconstitutional means,” Justice Venkataramiah had mentioned within the ruling.
“After his retirement, Justice ESV was not eager on sinecures and spent his time being related to numerous establishments. NLS was closest to his coronary heart the place he loved educating and interacting with vivid younger minds. He taught at NLS until his passing,” she mentioned.
Supreme Courtroom Justice Arvind Kumar, Karnataka Excessive Courtroom Chief Justice N V Anjaria, former Punjab and Haryana HC Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal had been among the many different judges current on the occasion.
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