Author: P Jaganmohan Reddy
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 291
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8125016171
Description
An account of an eminent jurist's long and distinguished career in the law, from his early days as a barrister to his retirement from the Supreme Court of India.
As a judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy heard and decided on several landmark cases which have profound and lasting implications for the country, covering such issues as the fundamental right to property and the constitutional rights of minority educational institutions. The Bank Nationalization case, the Keshavananda Bharati case and the St, Xavier case are some of the proceedings about which he writes in this book.
Trials recounted in law reports and the media often took place against an intricate background of administrative and political maneuvering. An absorbing aspect of this book is the detail of how repeated challenges, minor and major, were thrown down at both State and Central level, and how upright judges needed to struggle against such pressures in order to uphold the proper functioning of the law.