Quotes By Justice Krishna Iyer

In srinivas iyer v.

Quotes by justice krishna iyer. Before that he was a state minister politician. As an activist lawyer he served jail terms for the cause of his poor and underprivileged clients. In a simple house he sat in a room lit with sunrays peeping through the windows in the midst of heaps of books. Justice vr krishna iyer 1915 2014 was a multifaceted personality with inimitable qualities of judgeship and is often referred to as a conscience keeper of justice in india.

Law heaven competition our legal system including the police is anti dalit and anti poor. He pioneered the legal aid movement in the country. Saraswati amma hon ble madras high court quoted renolds v. United states 1879 98 u s.

He was at the bench of the supreme court for a tenure of almost eight years where he reformed the indian justice system and stood up for the poor and underprivileged. Justice krishna iyer s court spent some time on this case particularly because of the attitude of what the court called the callous public bodies habituated to deleterious inaction. Sometime back i had been to kerala where i paid an informal courtesy to one of india s most renowned judges honorable justice krishna iyer former judge supreme court. The death penalty laws wrathful majesty in blood shot equality deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich the pariah not the brahmin the black not the white the underdog not the top dog the dissenter not the.