The crass dishonesty of former CJI Chandrachud
I have stated in my interviews by Neelu Vyas and Kapil Sibal that former CJI Chandrachud was a rank careerist all his judicial career, willing to give dishonest judgments whenever he thought that giving an honest judgment may jeopardize his chance of becoming CJI.
A typical example was his dishonest judgment in the Babri Masjid case
He was like his father Justice YV Chandrachud who gave a dishonest judgment in the ADM Jabalpur vs Shivakant Shukla case holding with the majority that a citizen has no right to life and liberty during an Emergency, so that his chance of becoming CJI may not be jeopardized. Only the brave and upright Justice HR Khanna dissented, even at the cost of losing the Chief Justiceship.
During the hearing of the Gyanvapi mosque case in May 2022 in the Supreme Court Chandrachud dishonestly commented that the Places of Worship Act, 1991 does not bar ascertainment of the religious character of a structure. In other words, the Court can investigate the historical identity of a place of worship, even if it cannot be altered on the basis of such finding.
The POW Act states that the religious character of a structure as on 15.8.1947 cannot be altered, and the purpose of this law was to put a quitus to disputes about religious structures. So even if a mosque was built by demolishing a Hindu temple, but this was done prior to 15.8.1947, it cannot be reconverted into a Hindu temple
Chandrachud’s observation allowed surveys to be conducted on mosques, including digging to find out if there were remnants of Hindu temples on the site,
This was crass obfuscation by Chandrachud, and reminds one of Yudhishthir’s statement in the Mahabharat ” Naro va, kunjaro va ” after falsely saying that Ashwattha was dead.
Why did Chandrachud do it, knowing it would emasculate the Places of Worship Act, as a court order for survey of a mosque may be a precursor to it’s destruction ? Obviously because he was then only a senior Supreme Court Judge, and not the CJI, and did not want to jeopardize his chance of becoming CJI. He must have thought that if he held that the suit was not maintainable because of the POW Act the BJP may be displeased and supersede him,
The result has been courts ordering surveys of mosques, as it happened in suits pertaining to Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi ( leading to capture of it’s basement by Hindu bigots who have started Hindu aarti there), the Shahi Masjid in Mathura, the Jama Masjid in Sambhal, and now entertaining the suit relating to the famous Ajmer Sharif Dargah
Chandrachud has opened a Pandora’s box which can tear apart India’s social fabric. There are tens of thousands of.mosques in India, and disputes can be raised over many of them alleging they were built after destroying Hindu temples, and asking for a survey. This so called ‘survey’ will be done by digging the mosque premises, and announcing that a Hindu temple stood there which had been demolished. Then a mob of Hindu bigots will come and demolish the mosque or dargah, as was done to the Babri Masjid.
Chandrachud has done incalculable harm to India
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The law allows for appeal to any judgement. If the decision is not according to some ones wish, then the judge is corrupt ? Is it a legal statement from a lawyer as per the constitution? is this accusation is legally valid ? I am really disappeared from a lawyer not accepting the legal system. This article seems a gimmick to attract attention n publicity.
Courts must not admit any case which violates sections under POW act …. until unless there is an amendment to the POW act….then only sanctity of the law would be maintained…
Chandrachud is a corrupt judge who made judgment by taking corruption from political party and destroyed secular hormany of India……stupid judge
Truly a decision with far reaching and disastrous consequences one cannot but believe a mam of his intellect could not have foreseen. One HAS to conclude it was deliberate.