Supreme Court of India
Rejanish K.v v. K. Deepa
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above analysis, since the Constitution itself makes a distinction between advocates on the one hand, and judicial officers, on the other, the argument of discrimination is insubstantial.
Judgment, page 78
From the headnote
An independent Judiciary is one of the basic features of the Constitution of the Republic. Indian Constitution has zealously Civil Appeal No. 3947 of 2020 & Connected Matters Page 13 of 20 guarded independence of Judiciary. Independence of Judiciary is doubtless a basic structure of the Constitution but the said concept of independence has to be confined within the four corners of the Constitution and cannot go beyond the Constitution.” The Constitution Bench in the aforesaid decision also relied upon the observations of this Court in All India Judges' Assn. [(1993) 4 SCC 288 : 1994 SCC (L&S)…
Authorities it was built on
- 1973 His Holiness Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalavaru v. State of Kerala
- 2002 Union of India v. Hansoli Devi & Ors.
- 1997 Ashok Kumar Sharma and Ors. v. Chander Shekhar and Anr.
- 1969 State of Assam & Anr. v. Kuseswar Saikia and Ors.
- 2013 Deepak Aggarwal v. Keshav Kaushik and Others
- 1999 The Registrar (admn.), High Court of Orissa, Cutt Ack v. Sisir Kanta Satapathy (dead) by Lrs. and Anr. Etc
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