“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… — 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
