[Reader-list] A Supreme Court Judge on caste in judiciary

[Shivam Vij]

By the way, Pandian is now the Chairperson of the National Commission for
Backward Classes, the Constitution body as far as OBC reservations are
concerned. Strangely, Pandian and the NCBC have not been speaking at all in
the current controversy, mute as if they were deaf, and Pandian refuses to
meet any journalists.

On 4/25/07, Anuj Bhuwania <anujbhuwania at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In the context of the breathtaking arrogance displayed by Justice
> Arijit Passayat of the Supreme Court in refusing to reconsider its
> erroneous order injuncting reservation for OBCs in Central educational
> institutions, and the rather different response from Chief Justice
> Balakrishnan yesterday, I think its high time we started discussing
> the caste character of the higher judiciary itself. Of course, broader
> social representation  is not necessarily a pancea for the "judicial
> emergency" that increasingly seems to prevail in India.
>
> To initiate a  discussion on this issue, I am giving a link below to an
> extract from an astonishing SC judgment, in the SCAORA case, the
> famous case where the SC gave itself the power to appoint judges of
> the higher judiciary in India.  The extract is  a separate concurring
> judgment filed by Justice Ratnavel Pandian. Pandian cited data
> regarding SC/ST and OBC judges in the High Courts and the Supreme
> Court, and reproduced them in his judgement to make his point.  (By
> the way, J. Pandian is the same judge who gave the majority opinion
> upholding the constitutionality of TADA) . Apart from this, I am not
> aware
> of any recent data and this too is dated 1993, compiling the caste
> make-up of the higher judiciary in India.
>
> http://www.altlawforum.org/Resources/judicial_nineties/Pandian
>
> Anuj
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