NEW DELHI: One month before your retirement, Chief Justice of India SA Bobde recommended on Wednesday to the elderly Supreme Court Judge Justice NV Ramana to the Center as the next CJI.
In the process, Bobde dismissed an unprecedented complaint against Ramana filed by Andhra Pradesh Prime Minister Jaganmohan Reddy after an internal investigation held that the accusation was “false, frivolous, unfounded, motivated”, false and an attempt to “intimidate” the judiciary.
In his letter to the Minister of Law of the Union Ravi Shankar PrasadBobde said that Ramana was eminently fit and fit to be appointed the next CJI, the first from Andhra Pradesh and the second Telugu to head the country’s judiciary after K Subba Rao. Ramana will be sworn in as the 48th CJI on April 24.
TOI learned that the CJI and two other senior judges examined Reddy’s shabby complaint, the charges were twofold: that Judge Ramana’s two daughters had bought land in Amaravati, the proposed capital of Andhra Pradesh, for a song even before the notification for the future capital. was issued, and that Judge Ramana had absolute dominance over the Andhra Pradesh judiciary, which was issuing adverse orders against the Reddy government.
The two judges gave extensive written opinions on the complaint and called the charges “false, frivolous, unfounded, motivated” and said that these were aimed at “intimidating the judge” who headed a bank that had issued orders to accelerate the pace of the tortoise. criminal trials against current and former deputies and deputies
Documents examined by TOI showed that Judge Ramana’s daughters, like many others, purchased land in the Amaravati area in June 2015 from a local property dealer more than a year after then-Union Minister Panabaka Lakshmi in February 2014 will announce Amaravati as the new capital.
When he is sworn in, Judge Ramana will be the second Telugu to head the judiciary. The figures of Judges Rao and Ramana are a contrast. Judge Rao was born into a wealthy family of lawyers and his father-in-law was a Madras HC judge. Rao registered as a lawyer in Madras HC in 1926 and was appointed a judge in March 1948. After the formation of Andhra Pradesh, Justice Rao was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in July 1954. He was appointed a member of the Supreme Court in January of 1958 and became CJI on June 30, 1966.
Nine months after his tenure as CJI, Judge Rao resigned to participate in the presidential elections as a candidate of the united opposition, the first CJI to do so. He was defeated by Congress Zakir Hussain, but won laurels by obtaining 44% of the votes.
Judge Ramana was born into an agricultural family on August 27, 1957, in the village of Ponnavaram in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. He registered as an advocate on February 10, 1983 and practiced in Andhra Pradesh HC and SC in civil, criminal, constitutional, labor, service and electoral matters and specialized in constitutional, criminal and service law and laws related to the interstate river disputes over water.
He was appointed permanent judge of Andhra Pradesh HC on June 27, 2000. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delhi HC on September 2, 2013 and became a judge of the SC on February 17, 2014.
Being the executive chairman of the National Legal Services Authority for the past year and a half, Judge Ramana has focused on bringing speedy justice to citizens and is determined to provide meaningful access to justice for the oppressed, poor, women and children in danger.
Describing his views, he said: “The idea of access to justice is deeply rooted in the constitutional vision of justice. Legal assistance is an important element in ensuring that access to justice is available to all, regardless of your social or economic status. The concept of access to justice in India is much broader than limiting it to providing lawyers for representation in court. It includes raising legal awareness and also providing legal assistance to the poor and marginalized for the updating your rights and prerogatives “.
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