{"id":159364,"date":"2021-04-24T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T11:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=159364"},"modified":"2021-04-24T17:48:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T12:18:35","slug":"s-a-bobde-bobde-retirement-supreme-court-bobde-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/news\/s-a-bobde-bobde-retirement-supreme-court-bobde-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice SA Bobde’s key Supreme Court judgments: Firecrackers to Great Indian Bustard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
ILNS: <\/strong>Chief Justice S.A. Bobde demitted office on Friday April 23 after completing almost one-and-a-half years in the country’s top judicial post. His Supreme Court<\/a><\/strong> tenure was of seven years and 84 days. It was during CJI Bobde\u2019s tenure that courts across India had to shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic and most of the deliberations went online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following are some of his major judgments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Firecracker ban<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Every year in the recent past, there has been a ban on the sale of firecrackers in the National Capital Region. Last year as well, the court had ordered a ban on the sale and use of firecrackers due to pollution. Notably, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court consisting of the then Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justices A.K. Sikri and Bobde, had given a judgment in 2016 suspending the sale of firecrackers in the NCR. It was the first such ban on sale of firecrackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n