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On the sidelines of Constitution Day celebrations in Parliament on November 26, 2021, which the Opposition parties boycotted, the attention somehow turned to the role of the judiciary in the Indian polity. Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, in his address during the opening ceremony of the Constitution Day function organised on the same day by the Supreme Court registry, stated that lakshman rekha drawn by the Constitution is sacrosanct. But there are times when courts are compelled to pay attention to unresolved grievances in the interest of justice.

Amidst yet another smoggy day in Delhi, a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana took a hard stand against pollution and pushed the governments in Delhi-NCR to evolve a mechanism to tackle the menace.

The Supreme Court said, “Any deviation from tradition is a question of fact which trial court can look into by appreciating the evidence.”

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N.V. Ramana, the Chief Justice of India, on Sunday said judges don't have any problem with the physical hearing of cases and hoped to resume after Dussehra if the country would not hit by another Covid wave.

A bench Supreme Court said that the suo motu extension of limitation period will stand withdrawn with effect from October 1, 2021. The Court observed that as the COVID-19 cases have come down and indicated that a buffer period of 90 days will be given with effect from October 1.

Free legal aid and the assurance of its universal availability is important to keep police excesses in check, CJI NV Ramana said recently. He also noted how police stations are the places where rights are easily trampled upon resulting often in custodial deaths and other excesses.

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"The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the highest in Police Station", the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana said at an event organized by the National Legal Services Authority of India (NALSA) on Sunday. He also inaugurated the legal aid app related to legal services.

The SC's repeated assertions on laws restricting habeas corpus, freedom of association, peaceful protest and dissent, particularly the untrammelled use of anti-sedition statutes and cyber regulations, is nothing new. Way back in 2016, I had offered a personal salute to Justices Dipak Misra