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Ex-CJI B R Gavai, former judges criticise SC judge Ujjal Bhuyan's remarks on disenfranchisement
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Retired judges have expressed their disapproval of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan's comments regarding disenfranchisement during recent remarks. They emphasized that the issue he spoke about is currently sub judice before the Supreme Court. Former Chief Justice B R Gavai stated that judicial propriety prohibits such comments from a sitting judge. Additionally, the judges questioned whether the electoral roll exercise actually constitutes disenfranchisement.

PTI

New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and other retired judges on Monday criticised the much-publicised statement of Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on disenfranchisement, saying that he should not have made these remarks on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as the issue is sub judice before the apex court.



Sitting judge Justice Bhuyan, while delivering the valedictory address at the 19th Justice Bodh Raj Sawhney Memorial Moot Court Competition at NALSAR University of Law on Sunday, said any process that "disenfranchises" millions of Indian citizens was "intrinsically arbitrary" and a "negation" of the constitutional order.



He also said the Constitution does not provide for two classes of citizens, one with voting rights and the other without voting rights, and no amount of "whataboutery" could justify such a process.

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