Explained: Who is BV Nagarathna, the lone SC judge who called demonetisation ‘unlawful’?
Justice BV Nagarathna was the sole judge to give a dissenting view on the Centre’s note-scrapping exercise in 2016. She held that the demonetisation exercise was “vitiated and unlawful.” She also differed from the majority’s view on point of the Centre’s powers under Section 26 of RBI Act. In the following year’s November, B V Nagarathna made headlines when she and two judges of the Karnataka High Court were locked in a room by a group of protesting lawyers. In a 2012 order, she had written: “While truthful dissemination of information is an essential requirement of any broadcasting channel, sensationalism in the form of ‘Breaking News’, ‘Flash News’ or in any other form must be curbed.” She had then urged the Centre to set up an autonomous and statutory mechanism to regulate broadcast media. Justice BV Nagarathna was also part of the 2019 judgment that ruled a temple is not a “commercial establishment” and hence, employees of a temple in Karnataka are not entitled to gratuity under Payments of Gratuity Act.
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