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Retired High Court judges, elder advocates and ineligible scholars person penned an unfastened missive to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant voicing objection to “unconscionable remarks” made from his Bench astir Rohingyas portion proceeding a petition raising interest astir the custodial disappearance of a radical of them successful India. During a December 2 proceeding of the petition filed by activistic Rita Manchanda, Chief Justice Kant was reported successful the media arsenic orally questioning the exile presumption of Rohingyas and whether intruders ought to beryllium welcomed with a reddish carpet. “When those who fly unit and persecution are dismissed with rhetoric that is hostile to their precise dignity, it threatens the foundational values of our Constitution and undermines nationalist religion successful the courts arsenic a refuge for the vulnerable… We truthful telephone upon you to reaffirm, successful nationalist statements, remarks successful tribunal and judicial verdicts, a committedness to law morality based connected quality dignity and justness for all, careless of origin. The majesty of the Supreme Court and your bureau is measured not simply by the fig of verdicts oregon administrative measures but much by the humanity with which those verdicts are delivered and considered,” the unfastened missive addressed to Chief Justice Kant said. The missive recalled India’s way grounds of hosting refugees of antithetic profiles and extending humanitarian extortion portion balancing nationalist information interests and the concerns of its citizens. “The authorities has issued peculiar documentation to Tibetans and Sri Lankans, recognizing their presumption arsenic refugees, and allowing them to entree basal socio-economic rights… The Citizenship Amendment Act, successful information grants exemption from the provisions of the Foreigners Act to spiritual minorities (other than Muslims), fleeing persecution, from Bangladesh, Pakistan oregon Afghanistan,” it read. The missive was signed by erstwhile Delhi High Court Chief Justice A. P. Shah, Justices K. Chandru and Anjana Prakash, on with erstwhile Director of the National Judicial Academy Prof. Mohan Gopal, elder advocates Rajeev Dhavan, Chander Uday Singh, Colin Gonzalves, Mihir Desai, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, advocates Kamini Jaiswal, Prashant Bhushan, Cheryl D’souza, Alok Prasanna Kumar, RTI activists Nikhil Dey and Anjali Bhardwaj, among others. The missive underscored the relation of the Supreme Court arsenic the custodian and last arbiter of the rights of the poor, the dispossessed and the marginalised. “Your words transportation value not simply successful the courtroom but successful the conscience of the federation and person a cascading effect connected the High Courts, the little judiciary and different authorities authorities. A remark that equates susceptible persons (who successful the lawsuit of the Rohingya see thousands of women and children) seeking structure with ‘intruders’ who ‘dig tunnels’, further dehumanises those fleeing genocidal persecution and weakens the motivation authorization of the judiciary,” the missive emphasised. It said invoking the plight of the mediocre successful India to warrant denying protections to refugees sets a unsafe precedent and was contrary to the principles of law justice. The Rohingya, arsenic so immoderate idiosyncratic residing successful India, were entitled to the protections of Article 21 and not conscionable protections from “third grade measures”. This cardinal close was disposable to an idiosyncratic who was a national oregon immoderate different idiosyncratic residing successful India, the missive said.
Published - December 05, 2025 05:01 p.m. IST
