Justice Khanna
Long live CJI Sanjiv Khanna
By Justice Katju
Long live CJI Sanjiv Khanna, who along with his two colleagues on the bench, Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice Vishwanathan, has stayed surveys and other interim orders in pending suits, and prohibited registration of fresh suits, regarding mosques and dargahs.
This order has prevented turmoil on a large scale throughout India, which had been initiated by the dishonest Ayodhya verdict, and the dishonest statements of former CJI DY Chandrachud in the Gyanvapi mosque case, which legitimized surveys of mosques and dargahs, making the Places of Worship Act, 1991 otiose. The survey could be a precursor, and lead to the eventual destruction of the mosque or dargah by a mob of bigots, as it happened to the Babri masjid.
Justice Khanna is proving to be a worthy successor of his great uncle, Justice HR Khanna, who bravely dissented in the ADM Jabalpur case, even at the cost of losing Chief Justiceship.
Thus, Justice Khanna has proved to be a chip of the old block, just as former CJI DY Chandrachud proved to be a chip of the old block by giving dishonest judgements e.g. in the Ayodhya verdict, to become CJI, just as his father former CJI YV Chandrachud gave a dishonest judgment in the ADM Jabalpur case
