New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna on Tuesday came up with a brief but eventful six-month term, leaving indelible traces on the judicial landscape and deciding on the decision to maintain secularism and fight corruption in public work.
Some say he failed the expectations and legacy of his outstanding uncle HR Khanna, who wrote about his loneliness in the ADM Jabalpur case in the case of an emergency.
Judge Kana is also a Maverick and has made some unprecedented decisions.
Some of his instructions allowed Supreme Court judges to disclose their assets, and the hike of finding cash from the formal residence of a current judge paved the way for inquiry. His other unheard of decision was surprised by the public university records of judges’ appointments.
Justice Karna ended the political debate just days before his departure, which followed BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s CJI in charge of the “civil war” in the country.
In a suitable reply, CJI said that the Constitution is supreme.
Although BJP MPs are reluctant to take contempt action, CJI Khanna received education from a MP who was accused of scandal and reduced the authority of the SC.
“It is the Constitution that is higher than all of us. The Constitution imposes restrictions and restrictions on the powers granted by the three organs. The power of judicial review is granted to the judiciary by the Constitution.”
Cji Khanna was sworn in on November 11, 2024, facing legal challenges and political headwinds to defend constitutional values.
After becoming CJI, he made a landmark judgment and blew up the constitution by the defense of the 1976 amendment challenge, adding the terms “socialism”, “secular” and “integrity” to the preface, observing that the parliament’s right to amendment was also extended to preamble.
Terms such as “socialist” and “secular” are integral to the “preamble”, making “prayer” particularly problematic.
Maintaining a zero-tolerance policy for public employment corruption, he led the appointment of over 25,000 teachers and non-teachers in West Bengal schools, and during the selection process, the appointment of violations.
In a humane approach to the quagmire of the law, he noted the state’s plea to the adverse effects of the school on the school and allowed uncontaminated teachers to continue working until December 31, 2025, note that, while completing a new recruitment.
Some decisions have brought a desperate need for peace in the case of originally fullness, especially when several subordinate courts directed an investigation into places of worship under the Places of Worship Act of 1991.
In December 2024, the bench he led banned new cases and stopped compulsory actions related to religious sites, effectively including the situation before it was initiated.
Through observations and questions on the bench, CJI highlighted the major legal shifts related to previous laws and listened to the challenges of the WAQF amendment.
The Case Saw Center submitted a counter affidavit of more than 1,000 pages to the request.
After the massive hearing, Cji Khanna later marked the matter on the bench of his successor Justice Br Gavai.
CJI Khanna ruled in most decisions that the bench of the court of the court was heard by the five judges and could be amended under the 1996 Arbitration and Reconciliation Act in some cases.
The cash discovery line involving Justice Varma caught the headlines and bricks in the same way. This issue focuses on the topic of judicial corruption and often speaks in a quiet tone of the legal community.
With the judiciary under enormous scrutiny, the CJI remained calm and handled the situation in a systematic way.
He first ordered a preliminary investigation by DK Upadhyaya, Chief Justice of the High Court of Delhi.
Later, the judicial work was withdrawn by Justice Varma of the Delhi High Court, and he was later transferred to the Allahabad High Court without judicial work.
After an internal inquiry panel prosecuted the judge, CJI resigned and later wrote to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi because Justice Varma refused to resign.
The decision to put all the details related to the initial query in the public domain is unprecedented.
Administratively, after serving as an office, CJI refused to submit an emergency listing and trial of a case oral and asked a lawyer to send an email or written letter.
He has not violated this practice once by allowing senior lawyers to mention urgent matters and list them.
Another step towards judicial transparency when the CJI demands public disclosure of the assets of Supreme Court judges and opens university records for public review.
Under his leadership, 21 out of 33 judges publicly declared their assets, while the university made more than 100 recommendations, including two Supreme Court appointments.
The public discourse of Justice Shekhar Yadav, sitting in the Allahabad High Court, did not get along well with the judiciary. The CJI-led university called the judge to Delhi and condemned him.
CJI also wrote a judgment that strengthened protection for arbitrary arrests, especially under economic laws such as the GST Act and Customs Act.
His ruling in the Radhika Aggarwal case emphasized that coercion cannot be the basis for tax recovery and conducted strict inspections on the abuse of administrative power.
He also condemned UP police for using weapons in civil disputes, calling it a “complete collapse of the rule of law.”
Prior to becoming CJI, Justice Khanna was part of the key decisions on the sanctity of EVM, the abolition of Article 370, and the scrapping of the Election Bond Program.
Justice Karna was a third-generation lawyer before being promoted to the Delhi High Court, focusing on reducing suspense and speeding up judicial delivery.
Justice Kana was born on May 14, 1960 and studied law at the University of Delhi Campus Law Centre, before becoming an advocate for the Delhi Bar Association in 1983.
As a lawyer, he practiced in the District Court of Tis Hazari Complex and subsequently transferred his practice to the Delhi High Court.
He served as a senior permanent consultant to the income tax department and was appointed as the executive officer (civil) of the Delhi National Capital Territory in 2004.
Justice Khanna also appeared in court and argued in the Delhi High Court that several criminal cases were another prosecutor and a friend of the court.
Justice Khanna is also the executive chairman of the National Legal Services Agency.
His uncle, Judge HR Khanna, shined when he resigned in 1976.
In an emergency, the majority of the judgments in the Constitutional Trial Judicial Judicial Judicial is considered a dark day in the history of the judiciary.
Senior Khanna declared the move unconstitutional and violated the rule of law. He paid the price when the former government of the Centre replaced him with the next CJI Justice MH Beg.
Justice HR Khanna was also part of the milestone judgment on the basic structural doctrine in the 1973 Kesavananda Bharati case.
