New Delhi: Justice GS Singhvi, known as a bold and pro-active Supreme Court judge who kept government on tenterhooks on public issues including 2G spectrum scam, retired on Wednesday after delivering his last judgement upholding gay sex as a criminal offence.
The seniormost judge of the Supreme court retired on Wednesday, with the judgment in the Naz Foundation case related to criminalisation of homosexual acts as his swan song. The judge refused to comment on the case in response to the media's questions, and focused in his speech on thanking his seniors, brother judges and family for supporting him in his work.
Justice Singhvi, who completed his law in 1971 from the Rajasthan University joined the Bar on July 28, 1971 and initially practised under Marudhar Mridul. He was elevated to the Bench of Rajasthan High Court on July 20, 1990 and was transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 1994 and thereafter to the Gujarat High Court in 2005. He was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh on November 11, 2005.
Justice Singhvi, who is due to retire on the 12th of December’ 13, has made a place for himself for his consistent, honest and bold position taken in 2G case, Niira Radia Tape issue, and land acquisition matters.He does not proclaim any established political ideology, but the poor and weakest were always safe in his courts. In his own words, “Litigative exercise is to tire out those who genuinely espouse the cause of the weak and poor”(Quoted from CPIL v. Union of India, popularly known as the 2G scam case).
He punished the establishment mercilessly by imposing huge costs for harassing citizens and in all such matters, he directed to recover the cost from the concerned officer who defaulted. The idea was that the public exchequer should not suffer due to its erring members.
Justice Singhvi openly advocated for bonafide Public Interest Litigations (PILs). In one of his rulings he mentioned, “Superior courts will be failing in their constitutional duty if they decline to entertain petitions filed by genuine social groups, NGOs and social workers for espousing the cause of those who are deprived of the basic rights available to every human being, what to say of fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution”.
deliton.netThe seniormost judge of the Supreme court retired on Wednesday, with the judgment in the Naz Foundation case related to criminalisation of homosexual acts as his swan song. The judge refused to comment on the case in response to the media's questions, and focused in his speech on thanking his seniors, brother judges and family for supporting him in his work.
Justice Singhvi, who completed his law in 1971 from the Rajasthan University joined the Bar on July 28, 1971 and initially practised under Marudhar Mridul. He was elevated to the Bench of Rajasthan High Court on July 20, 1990 and was transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 1994 and thereafter to the Gujarat High Court in 2005. He was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh on November 11, 2005.
Justice Singhvi, who is due to retire on the 12th of December’ 13, has made a place for himself for his consistent, honest and bold position taken in 2G case, Niira Radia Tape issue, and land acquisition matters.He does not proclaim any established political ideology, but the poor and weakest were always safe in his courts. In his own words, “Litigative exercise is to tire out those who genuinely espouse the cause of the weak and poor”(Quoted from CPIL v. Union of India, popularly known as the 2G scam case).
He punished the establishment mercilessly by imposing huge costs for harassing citizens and in all such matters, he directed to recover the cost from the concerned officer who defaulted. The idea was that the public exchequer should not suffer due to its erring members.
Justice Singhvi openly advocated for bonafide Public Interest Litigations (PILs). In one of his rulings he mentioned, “Superior courts will be failing in their constitutional duty if they decline to entertain petitions filed by genuine social groups, NGOs and social workers for espousing the cause of those who are deprived of the basic rights available to every human being, what to say of fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution”.
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