Chief Justice of India BR Gavai said on Friday that the Court had adopted a "swadeshi interpretation" in its recent opinion in the Presidential Reference , preferring Indian precedents over foreign jurisprudence.

The CJI made this comment in response to a statement by Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta that after Justice Gavai took over as the CJI and also with Justice Surya Kant, "a fresh Breeze of Indianness has started flowing in the judgments."

"In yesterday's judgment, we did not use a single foreign judgment and we used Swadesi interpretation," CJI Gavai said, referring to the opinion in the Presidential Reference on the issue of Bills.

Agreeing, the SG pointed out that the bench had distinguished the American system and the UK Crown system from the Indian Constitution.

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