New Delhi: Chief Justice of India B R Gavai has said his judgement on bulldozer action gave him \"immense satisfaction\" as it dealt with \"human problems\".
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Gavai and K V Viswanathan on Novemer 13, 2024 equated \"bulldozer justice\" with a lawless state of affairs where might was right and laid down pan-India guidelines.
Speaking at a felicitation event organised by an academic group of Supreme Court advocates on September 19, CJI Gavai said he got the opportunity to share the bench with Justice Viswanathan for approximately six months.
\"One of the judgments, I think, which gave immense satisfaction to both of us was the bulldozer judgment. What was at the heart of the judgment was the human problems and the problems faced by human beings. The family