“judiciary, thanks to its independence from state control, strikes the proper balance between the contradicting trends. That is why independence of the… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“the Constitution of a country is never completed in one go. Its development is a continuous process. Sidney” — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“The Constitution seeks to protect the basic rights of the people and the spirit of human liberty against encroachment by the state.… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“No authority under the Constitution is supreme: the Constitution is supreme and all the authorities function under the supreme law of the… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“Our Constitution is based on three fundamentals, which form the core of constitutionalism. They are: (1)A written Constitution (2)A chapter on fundamental… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“Therefore, judges have to reach beyond the apparently impenetrable sphere of meaning by adopting the strategy of unravelling meaning in the constitutional… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“The judiciary, by its interpretation of the Constitution, plays a significant role in changing the destiny of the nation and which it… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“After all, a Constitution is what the judges say it is. This is bound to be so when a nation adopts a… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“In a way, this judgment has taken forward the jurisprudential strategy in Vishaka of reading into our constitutional law the global concepts… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“it was not until 1937 that Justice Curdozo of the US Supreme Court formulated for the first time the concept of fundamental… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“A Constitution is] The set of the most important rules and common understandings in any given country that regulate[s] the relations among… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“Article 73 of the Constitution clearly stipulates that, subject to the Constitution, the executive power of the union shall extend to matters… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“The Vishaka judgment made it clear that gender equality and the right to a safe and secure working place is part of the fundamental… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“After all, a Constitution is what the judges say it is. This is bound to be so when a nation adopts a Constitution, setting… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“Presidential Order under Article 359(1) could suspend, during Emergency, the right to move any court for the enforcement of fundamental rights mentioned in the… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“it was not until 1937 that Justice Curdozo of the US Supreme Court formulated for the first time the concept of fundamental rights as… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“The Constitution seeks to protect the basic rights of the people and the spirit of human liberty against encroachment by the state. Hence” — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“This was the first time that the Supreme Court equated the right to vote with the fundamental right of speech and expression under Article… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“The Supreme Court also held that the right to know is a facet of the fundamental right of freedom of speech and expression of… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.’3” — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“Therefore, judges have to reach beyond the apparently impenetrable sphere of meaning by adopting the strategy of unravelling meaning in the constitutional text. This… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“Eminent jurist Fali S. Nariman very aptly describes it8: ‘Originally an English transplant with Anglo-Saxon roots, the legal system in India has grown over… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“The judiciary, by its interpretation of the Constitution, plays a significant role in changing the destiny of the nation and which it has done… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“…the very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“This is a landmark step in internationalizing our laws by fostering the trend of a globalized human rights regime of shared values.” — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“The Supreme Court found that there was an absence of a domestic law protecting the rights of women in working places and therefore the… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share
“Though India has progressed further on per capita income than countries such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan, so far as social indicators… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share