Retiring Calcutta High Court judge Justice Chitta Ranjan Dash Today (May 20th) credited the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for shaping his personality and instilling courage and patriotism in him.
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KOLKATA: Retiring Calcutta High Court judge Justice Chitta Ranjan Dash today credited the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for shaping his personality and instilling in him values of courage and patriotism. Speaking candidly, Justice Dash revealed his longstanding association with the RSS since his childhood.
“Today, I must unfold my true self. I owe a lot to one organisation. I am there from my childhood till I attained my youth. I have learned to be courageous, upright, have equal view for others, and above all, the sense of patriotism and commitment to the work wherever you work. I must admit here that I was and I am a member of the RSS,”
-he said.
Justice Dash emphasized that he distanced himself from the RSS after becoming a judge and maintained impartiality in all his judicial dealings, irrespective of the political affiliations of the parties involved.
“I have distanced myself from the organisation (RSS) for about 37 years due to the work I undertook. I never used the membership of my organisation for any advancement of my career, because that is against our principle. I have treated everybody at par, be it a Communist person, be it a BJP or Congress or even TMC person. I do not have any bias against anybody. I do not have any bias against any political personality. All were equal before me. I tried to dispense justice on two principles: one is empathy and second is law can be bent to do justice, but justice cannot be bent to suit the law,”
–he stated.
Justice Dash, originally from Odisha, began his legal career by enrolling as an advocate in 1986. He joined the Odisha judicial service in 1999, serving as an Additional District & Sessions Judge in various locations across the state.
He was later appointed as Registrar (Administration) of the Orissa High Court. He ascended to the position of additional judge of the Orissa High Court on October 10, 2009, and was transferred to the Calcutta High Court on June 20, 2022.
Recently, another Calcutta High Court judge, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, resigned from office to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Justice Gangopadhyay is now contesting the Lok Sabha polls as the BJP candidate from the Tamluk constituency in the Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal.
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