“This was the first time that the Supreme Court equated the right to vote with the fundamental right of speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution and further held that for a fair election in an open participatory… — 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 a voter under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution. The Supreme” — 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… — 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. 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… — 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 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
