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Outgoing Chief Justice of India B. R. Gavai connected Thursday (November 20, 2025) said that helium practises Buddhism but helium is simply a genuinely secular idiosyncratic who believes successful each the religions.
Speaking astatine a farewell relation organised by the Supreme Court Advocates connected Record Association (SCAORA), Justice Gavai expressed his gratitude, saying that the country's judiciary has fixed him a lot.
Justice Gavai is scheduled to discontinue connected November 23, and Friday would beryllium his past moving time successful Supreme Court.
"I signifier Buddhism but I bash not person overmuch extent successful immoderate spiritual studies. I americium genuinely secular and I judge successful Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, everything," Justice Gavai said.
"I person learnt this from my father. He was a secular and erudite follower of Dr Ambedkar. While increasing up, erstwhile we utilized to travel him to governmental functions and his friends say, 'Come here, the dargah present is famous, oregon the gurdwara present is famous', we utilized to go," the CJI recollected.
Justice Gavai said helium could scope the existent presumption lone due to the fact that of Dr. Ambedkar and the Constitution.
"Otherwise, I don't deliberation immoderate lad studying successful a municipal schoolhouse sitting connected the crushed could ever imagination of this. I person tried to unrecorded by the 4 cornerstones of the Indian Constitution -- Justice, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity," helium said.
Justice Gavai said the Supreme Court should not beryllium a CJI-centric tribunal but a tribunal of each the judges.
"The Supreme Court is simply a precise large institution. Unless each the stakeholders, including the judges, the bar, the registry and unit enactment together, the tribunal cannot function. The Supreme Court Bar Association and SCAORA should ever beryllium taken connected committee wherever problems of the barroom are concerned," helium said.
CJI-designate Justice Surya Kant, who was present, said that helium has known Justice Gavai for 2 decades.
He said the outgoing CJI's committedness for justness to the communal antheral was genuinely commendable.
"I person seen the humane broadside of Justice Gavai. He is warm, gracious and a large host. I americium rather definite that adjacent aft his retirement, helium volition proceed to usher the institution. His acquisition volition stay an plus for the institution," Justice Kant said.
SCAORA president Vipin Nair thanked CJI Gavai for taking cognisance of the contented of investigating agencies summoning lawyers arsenic portion of their investigation.
