Responding to the Union’s reliance on the ‘constitutional trust’ placed in the Prime Minister to defend the 2023 Election Commissioners’ appointment law, Justice Dipankar Datta questioned whether that trust had been honoured in practice. Pointing to the criminal antecedents of many elected representatives and drawing on Ambedkar and the Manoj Narula judgment, he observed that one is forced to ask whether the trust has been ‘betrayed in practice’. The remarks are prima facie observations in a matter now referred to a Constitution Bench.
Today, On 5th May, The Supreme Court asked “Are you the chief priest of the country?” while criticising the Indian Young Lawyers Association’s 2006 PIL against restrictions on women aged 10 to 50 entering Kerala’s Sabarimala Temple. The court called the petition amounted to an abuse of process of law.
Today, On 23rd April, The Supreme Court said it respects the views of all distinguished authors and thinkers but cannot rely on information from “WhatsApp University.” The nine-judge Constitution bench made this remark while hearing petitions on discrimination against women and religious freedom issues.
