New CJI in Supreme Court

 S.H. Kapadia

12.05.10 Mangalore : K.G. Balakrishnan has retired as chief Justice of India on May 11. Justice S.H. Kapadia, the senior most Judge in the Supreme Court and known for his complete character of integrity has taken over as the new chief Justice of India on Tuesday.

Justice Kapadia worked as a menial class IV employee when he started to earn a living under humble origins. He used his sound knowledge of accounting and economics for the weak and downtrodden classes of people in India, which had tribal and workers.

Jurist and farmer Judge V.R. Krishna Iyer has congratulated Justice Kapadia on his new post and hoped Constitutional Justice would prevail, under the new CJI.

Iyer referred to Nehru’s dream of a tryst with destiny, which could only be arranged by a Judiciary as the priest in India, as an obligation to fulfil under the national constitution, in a multi – cultured, multi-lingual, multi-dimensional human community.

His letter congratulating the new incumbent in the chair of CJI in the supreme court at New Delhi, seems to have inspired the latter with a new hope to acquit himself faithfully to discharge national responsibility in the most effective Judicial wing of this great country.

Meanwhile, the retiring CJI, K.G. Balakrishnan in a 3 Judge bench having Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice DeepakVerma has allowed mining operations in the reserve forests within 150 meters of the borders between Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka In Obalapuram mines of the Gali Reddy brothers, in undisputed areas under leases. The bench of SCI asked the department of survey of India to complete the demarcation of the two Southern states borders in 2 months. The orders have led to confusion in action on mining