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  • Merit must predominate other factors in appointments to judiciary: Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, who demitted office after serving over seven years on Thursday, said merit must predominate other factors in appointments to the judiciary.

    “I believe nobody has a ‘legitimate expectation’ to come to this court. I believe there is a ‘legitimate expectation’ in the people of India and the litigating public to get a certain quality of justice from this final court,” Justice Nariman said at his farewell organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) .

    “For that, it is very clear, merit must predominate, subject to other factors. But merit always comes first,” he added.

    Justice Nariman, the illustrious son of noted jurist Fali Nariman, said “it is time more direct appointees are elevated to this bench”.

    “I would also say, and exhort, those direct appointees who are asked, never to say ‘No’. It is their solemn duty, having reaped so much from the profession to give back,” Justice Nariman said.

    Commenting on his experience as a judge in the top court, Justice Nariman said these seven years have been the most gruelling years of his life.

    “It is no cakewalk. When I was on this (lawyer) side I had no concept of what was on the other side. I have been on both sides. This side (judges) is much more difficult. You have to read much more. I enjoyed writing judgements and at the end, it worked out well,” he said.

    Justice Nariman, who became the apex court judge on July 7, 2014, disposed of over 13,500 cases and delivered historic verdicts including the declaration of privacy as a fundamental right, setting aside of IT Act provision empowering arrests, decriminalising consensual gay sex and permitting women of all ages to enter Kerala’s Sabarimala temple.

    Justice Nariman, born on August 13, 1956, became a senior lawyer in 1993 and Solicitor General of India on July 27, 2011, before being elevated as the judge of the apex court on July 7, 2014.

  • SC directed Center to install CCTV cameras in offices of CBI, ED, NIA and other investigative agencies

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Center to place CCTV cameras and recording equipment in the offices of investigative agencies, including the CBI, ED and the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which conduct interrogation and arrest power.

    A bench headed by Justice RF Nariman said that states and union territories (union territories) should ensure that each and every police at all entry and exit points, main gates, lock-ups, corridors, lobbies and receptions CCTV cameras should be installed at the station. Also the areas outside the lock-up rooms so that no part remains open. It further stated that the CCTV system should be equipped with night vision and it should also have audio as well as video footage and that of the Center, States and Union Territories It would be compulsory to purchase such systems, which are the least possible, storing data for maximum time. year.

    “In addition, it is also directed to install CCTV cameras and recording equipment in the offices of the Union of India: Central Bureau of Investigation, National Investigation Agency, Enforcement Directorate, Narcotics Control Bureau, Revenue Intelligence Department, Serious Sinister Investigation Office (SFIO) ), Any other agency that interrogates and has the power to arrest, ”the bench said, including justices KM Joseph and Anirudh Bose.

    The bench said, “As most of these agencies make inquiries in their offices, CCTVs will be essentially installed in all the offices where the accused are interrogated and apprehended in the same way as in the police station. is.” command of.

    The apex court said that in September this year, it had asked all states and union territories to ascertain the exact position of CCTV cameras in the case as well as the formation of oversight committees by order dated April 3, 2018.

    The top court, while dealing with a case related to custodial torture, had in July 2017 this year noticed a case in which it ordered installation of CCTV cameras in all police stations to investigate human rights violations, crime scene. Can be videographed. To set up a Central Migrant Committee and such a panel in each State and Union Territory.