Justice AM Ahmadi Biography Review: Legacy of India’s Fearless Supreme Court Judge
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Justice AM Ahmadi Biography Review: Legacy of India’s Fearless Supreme Court Judge

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Published : Dec 10, 2024 10:15 IST - 5 MINS READ The heart of Insiyah Vahanvaty’s biography of Justice A.M. Ahmadi is the role played by him on the bench, with special attention to his dissenting opinions. The Fearless Judge: The Life and Times of Justice A. M. Ahmadi By Insiyah Vahanvaty Juggernaut By Insiyah Vahanvaty Pages: 347 Price: Rs.629 Legal scholars will also be interested in reading the portions of the book concerning Justice Ahmadi’s dissent in the matter of the collegium system of judicial appointments and the manner in which deliberations among judges in important constitutional matters did, or did not, take place. For instance, the political unrest during the Emergency or the juncture of Justice Ahmadi’s elevation to the Supreme Court when an unnamed member of the Supreme Court says: “But he is a Muslim. The chapter also speaks of the ”significant conflict” and ”stark ideological differences” between Justice Ahmadi and two revered former CJIs of the Supreme Court: Justice M.N. Sharma at the hearing on November 28, 1992, which is worthy of reproduction: “Shri Sharma asserts that the previous experience of what happened between 6 and 26 July, 1992, should put the court on guard and examine whether the State Government is adopting a stratagem to enable the collection of a large mass of people who ultimately will be allowed to, and formally blamed for taking the law into their own hands and pleading its own helplessness.” The shameful developments of December 6, 1992, barely a week after this prescient submission was disregarded, led to Justice Ahmadi ruefully telling his family: “Remember my words, India will never be the same again.” Perhaps this weighed on the judge when, in S.R.

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