‘How Can You Disagree With Your Father’, CJI to AG During The Aadhaar Hearing on Tuesday
During the hearing by the five-Judge Constitution Bench on the issue of reference of the right to privacy issue to a larger bench, the Chief Justice of India, J.S.Khehar asked the Attorney General, K.K.Venugopal, a pointed query, which made everyone laugh.The discussion during the hearing was about how minority opinion in a judgment comes to be accepted by the majority in a subsequent case. During the hearing by the five-Judge Constitution Bench on the issue of reference of the right to privacy issue to a larger bench, the Chief Justice of India, J.S.Khehar asked the Attorney General, K.K.Venugopal, a pointed query, which made everyone laugh. At this point, the Attorney General told the bench, that the minority view in that case was articulated during the hearing by his father, M.K.Nambiar, the counsel for A.K.Gopalan, who challenged his detention under the Preventive Detention Act. As Attorney General, Venugopal now defends the indefensible Central Government position in the Aadhaar case that there is no fundamental right to privacy, and that the ratio in M.P.Sharma and the Kharak Singh were incorrectly followed in subsequent cases, Tuesday’s discussion on Maneka Gandhi case proved to be lively.
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