For this buoyant evening, the Chief Guest was Justice A. K. Sikri, Judge Supreme Court, Guests of Honour and Panellists were Justice Dipak Misra (Former Chief Justice of India), Attorney General K. K. Venugopal, eminent and distinguished Prof (Dr) NR Madhava Menon and Mr Surendra Malik, Chief Editor, Supreme Court Cases (SCC) . The Panel discussion was moderated by Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC-TV18.

The event was attended by distinguished guests including another former CJI Justice R.C. Lahoti and veteran Advocate and former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee among others.

“The Justice Dipak Misra Reader” is an ensemble of the major judgments delivered by Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra during his tenure in the office. The evening began with welcome speech by Mr Sumeet Malik for a gathering of Former Chief Justices, Sitting and Former Justices along with an energetic and full of curiosities audience for the launch of the Dipak Misra Reader following the panel discussion on “Constitutional Morality” a very much used and discussed phenomenon in the talked about recent 5-Judge Bench, Sabarimala Case [Indian Young Lawyers Assn. v. State of Kerala, 2018 SCC OnLine SC 1690].

 In the address, Mr Sudeep Malik’s words of wisdom and thought-provoking speech on the topic for the day “Constitutional Morality” gave a start to the discussion followed by Ms Shereen Bhan’s moderation towards the discussion. Former CJI Dipak Misra while mentioning the concept of “Constitutional Silences” along with Justice AK Sikri, Judge Supreme Court of India, speaking in favour of the idea of “Constitutional Morality” pulled all the strings for the acceptance of the same by AG KK Venugopal who supported the dissenting view of Indu Malhotra, J. in the Sabarimala decision along with Prof (Dr) NR Madhava Menon giving a “not-so-convinced” nod towards the concept. Mr Surendra Malik elevated the concept of constitutional morality to the stature of “Dharma”, a description that was well received by the august gathering including the Hon’ble Judges.

The phenomenal evening assembled with the efforts of the EBC family was wrapped up successfully with enthralling and enlightening views of the illustrious crowd.

About the book:

The Justice Dipak Misra Reader is the unique and comprehensive law and jurisprudence enunciated by Former Chief Justice Dipak Misra on certain key issues that face our Nation and our People today, in his seven highly prolific years at the Supreme Court. What makes this body of law particularly valuable is that it is directly actionable.  The Reader has been crafted in such a way that the original headnotes, pagination and paragraphing of the judgments as published in SCC has been retained. Thus, the cases included in The Reader can easily be cited in a court of law.

The cases in Vol. 1 of the Reader relate particularly to Constitutional Governance beyond the express words of the Constitution, in consonance with what has been coined as “Constitutional Morality”: the Spirit that animates the Letter of the Constitution.

In the area of Human Rights and Social Reform, the cases in Vol. 2 of The Reader relate most poignantly to the Empowerment of Women and Children and to the Protection of their Body, Soul and Spirit.

In addition to crafting completely new principles in the above crucial areas of law, the learned judgments in Vol. 3 clarify important issues in various areas of Criminal Law and Procedure, and Arbitration, Commercial and Civil Law.

-Sumeet Malik

-Sudeep Malik

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The event was a grand one itself as it was the last week of the tenure of CJI Dipak Misra and the week of major landmark judgments pronounced with “Aadhaar, M. Nagaraj and Live Streaming” verdicts out on the same day as the event took place on the evening of 26-09-2018, marking it to be one of the landmark days, as it would be so called and placed in the history.

The jam-packed hall of Bikaner House witnessed the arrival of the eminent personalities, which comprised of Chief Guest, Hon’ble the Chief Justice, Justice Dipak Misra along with the Guests of Honour Justice A.K. Sikri and Mr K.K. Venugopal, Attorney General for India.

Following this the evening as chaired by the CJI wouldn’t have been complete if he himself would not have spoken a few words on the book and further a panel discussion took place which was moderated by Ms Haripriya Padmanabhan, Advocate, Supreme Court.

From the Author: In sequel to the first edition, the author has collected the pearls from landmark judgments covering almost every issue ranging from women’s rights to privacy; from education to passive euthanasia; etc. and added them to the already crafted beautiful necklace. The author has added to the already created extensive word index by which the quotes that contain a particular word can be found.

The Word Index also lists Articles of the Constitution and Sections of the Acts and therefore can be really helpful in case the reader wishes to look for an excerpt with respect to a particular provision.

“We hope that in creating this work, we are able to make the law a little less dreary and those engaged in the study of the law are made to think, reflect and be inspired by these little gems.”

-Sumeet Malik

Quotable Quotes from Supreme Court Cases (SCC) (1969–2018)

An Insight

Constitution

Duty of Court

“The constitutional courts cannot sit in oblivion when fundamental rights of individuals are at stake. Our Constitution has conceived the constitutional courts to act as defenders against illegal intrusion of the fundamental rights of individuals. The Constitution, under its aegis, has armed the constitutional courts with wide powers which the courts should exercise, without an iota of hesitation or apprehension, when the fundamental rights of individuals are in jeopardy.”

Dipak Misra, C.J. in Kalpana Mehta v. Union of India, (2018)7 SCC 1, para 45

Democracy

“There is a recognition to the hard reality that without protection for human rights there can be no democracy and no justification for democracy.”

Dr A.K. Sikri, J. in National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India, (2014) 5 SCC 438, para 124

Women Empowerment

“Honesty, pride, and self-esteem are crucial to the personal freedom of a woman. Social progress depends on the progress of everyone. Crime against women is an unlawful intrusion of her right to privacy, which offends her self-esteem and dignity.”

Banumathi, J. in Mukesh v. State (NCT of Delhi), (2017) 6 SCC 1, paras 370 and 379

“No nation, with all its boasts, and all its hopes, can ever morally be clean till all its women are really free — free to live without sale of their young flesh the lascivious wealth or commercialising their luscious figures.”

V.R. Krishna Iyer, J. in Chitan J. Vaswani v. State of W.B., (1975) 2 SCC 829, para 15

It was a successful evening that was attended by an illustrious crowd of academicians, advocates and community members who were enlightened and enthralled.

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