Quote by Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.’3”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“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

“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

“…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

“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