The event will be held on July 28 at the India International Center in New Delhi‘The competent judge H.S. R.S. Khanna Memorial Lecture has been postponed. Chief Justice of India Surya Kanter was scheduled to attend the event as the chief guest. The organizers said that the decision to postpone the event was taken a few days ago. The topic of the lecture was Defection to Merger: Need for Abolition of Tenth Schedule.
Senior Advocate Arvind P. The donor was scheduled to deliver a speech and late Justice H.S. R.S. Khanna’s nephew and former Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna presided over it. After this, a panel titled ‘Fifty years of ADM Jabalpur vs Shivkant Shukla’ was also scheduled to be held. Journalist Shekhar Gupta in this discussionFormer Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court Jatindra Singh, senior advocates CSS Baidyanathan and Rajeev Nair, as well as NLSIU Bangalore Vice-Chancellor Sudhir Krishnaswamy participated. Note that Justice H.S. R.S. Khanna created history by giving the only dissenting judgment in the ADM Jabalpur case.
Chief Justice Surya Kant is currently the talk of the town. last mayDuring the month, he made a controversial comment comparing unemployed youth to cockroaches or butterflies. These comments led to the birth of an organization called the Telapoka Janata Party, which launched a fierce agitation demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The education minister was forced to resign on July 25 due to the protests. Around 75,000 people gathered near Jantar Mantar in a protest march to Parliament House, where police used batons, tear gas and pellet guns as well as barbed sticks indiscriminately on the protesters.
The chief justice told advocate Narendra Mishra, who had appealed against the police action on July 22, not to waste the court’s time. However, two days later, he called the news of rejection of the student agitator’s petition completely false and clarified that his comments had been misinterpreted. The Chief Justice said that the right to peaceful protest is fully protected in the Constitution. Lathi-charge by the police just for protesting can never be supported and there should be an independent inquiry into such police brutality.
The 26-year-old was arrested in JulyChief Justice Surya Kanter was also scheduled to attend the convocation of Jindal Global Law School of P Jindal Global University. However, at the last moment, he did not attend the ceremony and senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi addressed the graduating students instead.