New Delhi: In a hard hitting speeches, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana said that popular majority is not a defence for arbitrary actions taken by a government and every action mandatorily required to comply with the Constitution.
Delivering the fifth Sri Lavu Venkatewarlu endowment lecture on ‘Indian Judiciary – Challenges of future’ at Siddhartha Law College in Vijayawada, the CJI also criticized the tendency to brand judicial review as judicial overreach.
CJI also questioned the manner in which various bills are being passed in the parliament.
“Such generalisations are misguided…If judiciary does not have power to review, then functioning of the democracy in the country would be unthinkable,” he said.