Chief Justice of India B. R. Gavai has reaffirmed the supremacy of the Constitution of India during a public address in his hometown of Amravati, asserting that it stands above all democratic institutions—including Parliament, the executive, and the judiciary. He stressed that while Parliament

Chief Justice of India BR Gavai recently declared that it was the Constitution that kept the country united through every crisis, and went on to call the Kesavananda Bharati judgment a milestone in that constitutional journey. On the surface, it might read like another ceremonial affirmation of India’s constitutional heritage—a polite nod to precedent, a […]

In his first public address as the 52nd Chief Justice of India, Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai asserted that the Constitution holds ultimate supremacy over all branches of the Indian state. Speaking at a felicitation ceremony hosted by the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa in Mumbai on May 18, CJI Gavai emphasized the need for […]