“…the very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities… and” — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“While referring to the Bill of Rights in the Indian Constitution, Ivor Jennings pointed to these features, saying: ‘The Indian reaction (in enacting the Bill of Rights) like the American reaction, is in a large measure a product of the… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“it was not until 1937 that Justice Curdozo of the US Supreme Court formulated for the first time the concept of fundamental rights as a doctrine in Palko v. Connecticut and held that some rights are fundamental as they ‘represent the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty… principles of justice so rooted in the traditions and conscience of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 the years, nourished in Indian soil; what was intended to be an English oak has turned into a large, sprawling Indian banyan whose serial roots have descended to the ground to become new trunks.” — 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 Image
“…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 Image
