JUSTICE BV NAGARATHNA
Date of Birth : 30-10-1962
Assumed Office : 31-08-2021
Retires on: 29-10-2027
No. of Judgements authored : 68
JUDGEMENTS:
- State of Uttar Pradesh v Lalta Prasad Vaish
State’s power to regulate industrial alcohol
- Property Owners Association v State of Maharashtra
Nature of Private Property
- Mineral Area Development Authority v Steel Authority of India
Nature of royalty paid by mine leaseholders
- Bilkis Yakub Rasool v Union of India
Early Release of Bilkis Bano Gangrape Convicts
- Neeraj Dutta v State (Govt of NCT of Delhi)
Validity of Circumstantial Evidence in Bribery Cases
- Sukhpal Singh Khaira v State of Punjab
Summoning New Accused After the Judgment is Delivered
- Vivek Narayan Sharma v Union of India
Challenge to Union’s 2016 Demonetisation Scheme
- Pattali Makkal Katchi v Mayileruperumal
Tamil Nadu’s Vanniyar Reservation
- Kaushal Kishore v State Of Uttar Pradesh
Azam Khan – Freedom of Speech and Expression
Justice Bangalore Venkataramiah Nagarathna , currently serving in the Supreme Court of India, is the daughter of the late Chief Justice of India, Justice E. S. Venkataramiah, who served as the 19th Chief Justice of India. Justice Nagarathna earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University, in 1984. She later pursued a law degree at the Campus Law Centre, Delhi University, graduating in 1987. After completion of her graduation in law , Justice Nagarathna enrolled in the Karnataka Bar Council on October 28, 1987. She practiced in Bangalore with expertise in:
- Constitutional and commercial law.
- Insurance law, service law, administrative and public law.
- Laws related to land, rent, and family matters.
- Arbitration, conciliation, conveyancing, and contract drafting.
Justice Nagarathna was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Karnataka High Court on February 18, 2008 after practicing law for nearly 20 years and thereafter elevated as a Permanent Judge on February 17, 2010. She was then Appointed to the Supreme Court of India on August 26, 2021 and took the oath of office on August 31, 2021. Her elevation was a part of the largest cohort of the women judges appointed to the Supreme Court by the then Chief Justice NV Ramanna.
Justice Nagarathna’s appointment to the Supreme Court has not only marked a significant step toward inclusivity in the judiciary but her potential to become the first female Chief Justice of India has been widely celebrated, symbolizing hope for greater representation of women in the judiciary. Justice Nagarathna is expected to become India’s 54th Chief Justice and will hold the post for 36 days.
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Notable Judgements
Recently Justice Nagarathna , authored the judgement of Bilkis Yakub Rasool v Union of India (2024),wherein it was reiterated that the ‘appropriate government’ in the case of remission means the government which granted the conviction and not the state government. Justice Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan struck down the remission granted to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case for being illegal.
In the case of Vivek Narayan Sharma v. Union of India (2023), being the lone dissenter on bench Justice Nagarathna expressed her views stating that, “although the scheme had a ‘noble’, it lacked procedural safeguards and suffered from legal irregularities”.
In a five-judge Constitution Bench ruling, of Kaushal Kishore v. State of Uttar Pradesh (2023) she authored a concurring opinion affirming that the grounds for restricting free speech under Article 19(2) are exhaustive and limited. The Bench also clarified that governments are not accountable for statements made by their ministers. The case arose from remarks by Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan regarding the Bulandshahr rape.
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