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Among other things, they ordered drastic improvements to mental asylums, condemned torture in prisons, and strengthened the rights of criminal defendants. Every justice must retire at 65. [...]any justice who had served on the Court in 1984 had gone into full retirement by 1990. [...]once on the ben...

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Published inEconomic and Political Weekly Vol. 50; no. 36; pp. 31 - 34
Main Author RAGHAVAN, VIKRAM
Format Book Review Journal Article Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Mumbai Sameeksha Trust 05.09.2015
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India
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Summary:Among other things, they ordered drastic improvements to mental asylums, condemned torture in prisons, and strengthened the rights of criminal defendants. Every justice must retire at 65. [...]any justice who had served on the Court in 1984 had gone into full retirement by 1990. [...]once on the bench, they largely defy easy labelling as conservatives, strict constructionists, or liberals. [...]we must not overlook the fact that even during the PIL's heyday in the early 1980s, there remained quite a few sceptics among the sitting judges. Overruling earlier precedents, a nine-judge panel in Bommai sharply circumscribed the central government's ability to impose president's rule in states under Article 356 (S R Bommai vs Union of India, AIR 1994 SC 1918).
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ISSN:0012-9976
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