Former Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Nariman said Shanti Bhushan was a man of tremendous commitment who quit the BJP because he believed it lacked secularism. He recalled that Bhushan always acted according to principles shaped by his family’s strong secular tradition.
The Supreme Court has transferred CPI(M)’s challenge to the Madras High Court order directing removal of permanent political flagpoles from public spaces in Tamil Nadu to Justice Vikram Nath’s bench. The party argued the order violates its fundamental rights and amounts to “impermissible judicial legislation.”
