HUMAN DIGNITY DEFINED MORE BY SUPREME COURT: JUSTICE SIKRI.

The concept of human dignity was defined more by Supreme Court through some of its authoritative pronouncements than by the Constitution, said Justice A.K. Sikri of Supreme Court, who delivered Justice M.R.A. Ansari memorial lecture in Hyderabad on 18th August, 2018 (Saturday). Recalling some decisions of Justice Ansari, who struck down several preventive detention orders of Delhi police during Emergency, Justice Sikri said judges of eight High Courts displayed remarkable courage, but the Supreme Court failed in its duties at that time. But judgments given by Justice Ansari in matters of preventive detention anticipated rules of law which Supreme Court would later lay down as law, he said quoting P.N. Lekhi, President of Delhi High Court Bar Association, who too was detained under PD Act. Lekhi contested as Bar President and won from jail during the Emergency. "Later, Supreme Court through various judgments expanded the scope of Articles. 14, 19 and 21 that deal with equality, right to life and concluded that right to life includes right to live in a dignified manner without undue attack on a person's dignity", Justice Sikri said.
The rights of undertrial prisoners were protected in D.K. Basu case and rights of convicts too were protected in Sunil Batra's case judgment, he said. Even handcuffing the accused was restrained, he said. Supreme Court gave a ruling that one has a right to die in a dignified manner in the euthanasia case, he said. Chief Justice T.B. Radhakrishnan of Hyderabad High Court, two legal luminaries from Nellore district, Justice P.V. Reddi and Justice M.N. Rao, too spoke and recalled the fearless ways of Justice Ansari, who also hailed from Nellore and later became Chief Justice of Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir High Courts during Emergency.
Supreme Court senior advocate C.S. Agarwal who flew to Hyderabad and scores of others paid homage Justice Ansari and thanked his daughter Fareeda Hussain and son-in-law Anis Hussain for establishing the Justice MRA Ansari Memorial Welfare Trust to perpetuate his memory.
-Challapalli Srinivas Chakravarthy-
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