CJI Gavai: Advocate or Judge? Falicitation Speech

CJI Gavai: Advocate or Judge? Falicitation Speech

This is the speech of the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India, Justice B.R. Gavai, in which he shared his life experiences, the challenges he faced, and the inspiring journey from being a first-generation lawyer to becoming the Chief Justice of India.

This transcript is based on his address at the Nagpur Bar Felicitation Program. While utmost care has been taken to transcribe the speech accurately, if any inadvertent errors have occurred, the team at The Law Advice expresses its unconditional apology.

Here's the text:

My chief justice, Justice Lalit, I think I'm only one who can claim that privilege amongst all my colleagues, Mrs Amita Lalit, my colleagues from the Supreme Court Justice Deepankar Datu Justice Prasana Varale, Justice Atul Chandurkar, their better halves, my colleagues from the Bombay High Court Justice , Justice Nitin Samre and Justice Anil Kot and all the colleagues of the dias their better halves, all My former brother and sister judges, the solicitor general for India Tushar Bhai Mehta, the advocate general for state of Maharashtra Dr. Virendra Saraf, Atul Pandey the president of the High Court Bar Association, Amul Jaltare Secretary, all other office bearsers the members of the bar council of Maharashtra and Goa.

There are many senior government officers present here shri Rahul Pandey the information commissioner for state of Maharashtra the office bearsers of various associations from Vidharba region, the government pleaders the lawyers representing the Union of India, the designated as well as non designated senior lawyers, the student friends and above all the members of my own Nagpur High Bar Association.

I'm deeply privileged to be with you this evening. This is I think my fifth felicitation and one of the last ones but the most important one for me because it is this association which has made me what I am today and therefore, though I have been given. I know the constraints of time we are already past the schedule time and I have been allotted 30 minutes, so I'll try to finish within that but I don't know whether I'll be willing to, because I think I might not get an opportunity, another opportunity to address my brothers and sisters from the association with whom I have an association of almost 35 years, to address as the chief justice of India and therefore even if I exceed time, I seek your apologies in the beginning itself. I'm really honored to be, “Marathi Language” I'm deeply privileged to be felicitated by none other than Justice Uday Lalit who was my chief justice for 76 days, only 76. It is said that in the past the justice Lodha who was with us in Delhi was one of the finest chief justices who is still remembered as one of the greatest chief justices. But I can share on this occasion that I have seen about half a dozen chief justices but the two chief justices with whom I'm highly impressed though both of them had a short stint, are chief justice Uday Lalit and Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna though just has a had a short period of short stint of 76 days and justice Sanjiv Khanna had almost the same time as I had of around 6 months. Both of them brought in transparency democracy and inclusiveness.

It is because of justice Lalit constituting the five constitution bench headed by seniormost judges of the Supreme Court that as a puisne judge of the Supreme Court, I got an opportunity to pen down my first constitution Bench judgment in the demonetization case. Like this is and Justice Sanjiv Khanna, I'm also a firm believer in the principle that chief justice is only a first amongst equals and not a master of the roster not the master of the supreme court. There's a growing belief that the Supreme Court is a Chief Justice’s court and not a court of all the judges but I must say with matter of pride that justice Lalit and justice Sanjiv Khaana and I have attempted to dispel that notion immediately like justice Lalit immediately after he took over as a CJI. He had held a full court meeting on the very next day, I also held a full court meeting immediately on the next day of assuming the office and we took all the decisions by taking into consideration views of everyone and all the decisions we were taken by the Supreme Court in its meeting held on 15th of May 2025 where the decisions of the Supreme Court of India and not of Justice Gavai.

My three two colleagues are present there who were there the third one joined little later. When I look back upon the journey of 64 and a half years there are many memories which come in my mind. There is a contribution of many who have made this journey reach its destination where I'm today, though it will not be possible to outline all those things in detail, I think I would not like to miss this opportunity to at least briefly address to them. As with everyone it is the upbringing. I think it is the parents who mainly contributed contribute to the upbringing of their children, it is my upbringing in a family which was totally inspired by the ideology of Dr BR Ammedkar, the architect of the constitution the proponent of the social and economic justice in the country. That has deeply influenced my upbringing and also working as a judge as a lawyer. My father as Justice Kilor referred to had devoted himself to the social and political life from the early days of life and along with Dr Ambedkar he was in the movement for the upliftment of downtrodden. As a student as a school going boy as a college going boy I used to travel with him a lot and therefore the problems which I could see him solving, address the problems that which he used to address as a leader of the masses also had a deep impact on what I think about life what I think about one should be.

 

As I always said in my other speeches that it is it was my father's decision that I should be a lawyer though my interests were somewhere else but it was his decision that he said was he wanted to be a lawyer and because of his commitment to social and political activities he could not complete his law studies and therefore, it was his decision which I followed that I became a lawyer. It's my mother's hard work and we lived in a small house and as I said yesterday and that the facilities for education at that time were very less in the Taluka places and therefore house always used to have 10 to 15 relatives for education and though we had a very humble background, my parents used to look after not only their close relatives but also the extended family and I think this is that value of inclusiveness this is that value of value of broader aspect to include everyone in the fold that has shaped my future life.

After completing my law because I was doing law in Bombay, I was a student of government law college but since in 1982, I used to live in Mumbai because of the my father's office as a chairman of the legislative council but after 1982 he was not continued and therefore I shifted to Amrawati and continued my education in Deshmukh law college, Amrawati. After passing out LLB I started practice in Mumbai and was junior with Barrister Rajay Boshale. I must express my gratitude to my senior was encouraging and gave us, juniors a lot of opportunities to argue the matters. I must also mention about some of the judges who at the relevant time were sitting at Mumbai. senior judges and they used to encourage the junior members of the bar to argue the cases themselves whenever the seniors were whenever an adjournment or passover was called was sought on the ground that the seniors are not available, one of them was Justice CS Dharmadhikari and the other one was Justice PB Sawant. They gave me an opportunity by giving me many  amicus curie matters and therefore even in the early days of my stint at Mumbai I could learn a lot by appearing in amicus curie matters and my seniors matters. I got a rarest opportunity of arguing a full bench in Mumbai in 85-86 on the interpretation of article 341 and 342 of the constitution and I had come to argue that matter from Nagpur because one of the matters was from Nagpur and my matter was from Mumbai so they were clubed together to argue before full bench of justice Mukerji justice CS Dharmadhikari and justice SB Kuldukar. After arguing a case for one day he got influenza and he was not in a position to come to the court and therefore he omitted to proceed with the arguments and I could I would argue that matter for about 2 days. Bhau Saheb Bobde was the advocate general then and he was opposing us in the matter, I was always impressed by two of the most eminent members of the Nagpur bar Bhau Saheb Bobde and VR Manohar. Coincidentally both of them were my father's friends and I developed acquaintance with both of them in Nagpur. in Bombay itself and both of them advised me that you are from Vidhrbha area, so if you shift your base to Nagpur. it will be better for you in a place like Nagpur you will flourish better than the sea of lawyers at Mumbai and I must say that it was the decision to abide by their advice and join the Nagpur High Court Bar and become the member of the High Court Bar Association Nagpur which was a turning point for me in my career. I shifted here in 1990 mr VR Manohar replaced Bhausaha Bobde as advocate general and I still recollect 1992 when he became advocate general he wanted to change the government Pleaders panel and he asked me to join the government pleader’s office as AGP. He said that you will get a very good experience, a variety of matters in the government Pleaders's office and it will strengthen your foundation. I had not yet completed 7 years of practice on the date on which he offered that and when I expressed this difficulty to him. He found out a solution he asked me when are you completing seven years so that was something somewhere in April. He said we'll issue the advertisement after April and that's how many young lawyers like me, VM Deshpandey, Arvind Majumdar and Rajiv Marulkar came in the team of the government pleader, Bhaskar Rao Patil was then our captain he was a government pleader and I must state that he gave full opportunities to all four of us and we encashed that opportunity may be me or VM Deshpandey, Arvind Majumdar and Rajiv Marulkar. Unfortunately, two of them are no more with us. He gave us matters to argue wherever the even the virus, of the medical admission rules, engineering college rules, the virus of statues were involved. I recollect that when all matters with regard to the medical admissions, because we see that every year medical admissions are there and followed by so many matters. all matters were clubbed together and he gave me an opportunity to represent all those matters in Mumbai on behalf of the government's office at Mumbai. He was there to give us an opportunity and four of us were there to encash “Marathi Language” that opportunity and I can say with sense of pride that all four of us encashed that opportunity and tried to excel in our professional foundation.

Unfortunately, 1993 incident occurred to which Mr mishra Ji. Pandit Ji, we used to call him now also we call him Pandit Ji it happened and the Nagpur bench faced some sort of turmoil for a couple of years. I left the government bridge office in 1993 and started my own practice but I must say that even with the bitterest politics that we expressed at that time which fortunately was a short-lived period of few years, there was never a bitterness most of my friends of my age group were on the other side including VM Deshpandey, Anand Deshpandey, Sunio Manohar, and Mishraji and Bobde Sahab Justice Sharad Bobde, referred to his election in as a president of DBA in 1993 but he forgot to mention about one election prior to that wherein justice Dhaga and justice Sharad Biobde were contesting against each other so I requested justice Bobde as his lordship then was that let us make an attempt to bring back peace to the association and all of us went to advocate Daga as his lordship then was and sought our vote for justice replied and “Marathi Language” he that was the first election that we lost and Mishra Ji had predicted that we will be losing by certain number of votes and that prediction came to be true on the next day, thereafter, the DBI elections happened and Mishraji with our support got elected thereafter his ambitions grew and when there was the election for the high court bar association all of us had unanimously decided that we'll this time create an history by having a first woman lawyer as a president of the high court bar association and Philit Kumkum didi for the president's office and Nitin Samre for the office of the Secretary SCBA and I still recollect that time we had taken a big march from the high court premises to the district bar from district bar to the charity commissioner's office and then to the district high district court and though Mishraji was overconfident kunkum Didi and Nitin both were elected with flying colors.

I forgot to mention Justice Shirpurkar who is present in the audience. Even in this bitter period whenever I and Sunil or Anand used to meet outside the court in the corridors we used to have very pleasant extenders and sometimes even the journalists used to ask but we never brought that politics to the personal level. Till 2000 I was practicing and with the blessings of all of you developed a good practice. I had never kept hidden my aim to become a super to become a high court judge, if I get an opportunity at the appropriate time and therefore when in 2000 the then coalition government changed and Vilasrao Deshmukh he became the chief minister of Maharashtra he offered me to become government pleader. I was not that keen to accept but then justice but justice Bobde justice Daga’s names were that time in the pendoleium and he said that if you choose to become a government pleader you'll get a shorter route for elevation otherwise you'll have to compete with the stalwarts who are waiting to be elevated I therefore accepted that offer with a condition I told Vilas Rao Deshmukh that I will accept the government pleaders's office only if 50% of the AGPS are of my choice and 50% are the government nominees. He was kind enough to accept that and I must say that at that point of time we inducted around 12 young lawyers who had 7 to 8 years practice as AGPS and I'm proud to say that today many of them are adoning the bench. Justice Samre, Justice Kilor, Justice Dangre, were part of my team justice Deshpandey was also with me earlier as an AGP as a government pleader. I got an opportunity to appear in many many important matters. At that time Mr Gulam Wahanwati was the advocate general and he had said that he would not like to come to Nagpur because Nagpur was not having an air service which had a business class and he said that he would not be in a position to fit in an economy chair and therefore, all important matters before the Nagpur bench were argued by me, be that the NMC resolution case. In those days there was a practice that in court number A the last row was always pulled with either the police officials or the senior government officers who were made to sit in the court from 10:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m and the task of defending all those was always upon me, a difficult task but and when I got an opportunity as a judge of the Supreme Court one of the orders that I passed was criticizing some of the benches because fortunately one matter came up before me from Bihar or from Patna High Court wherein one honorable judge had asked the presence of 193 officers in a year before the court so I deprecated that practice and said that unless it is absolutely necessary or the officer is found to be in utter defiance of the orders of the court the court should refrain from directing the presence of such officers.

One of the more important matters in which I got an opportunity or which has given a satisfaction to me was referred to some of the speakers with regard to an order passed by a bench of the Nagpur High Court directing all the slums in Nagpur to be demolished within a period of one week and on a failure to do so the collector was to be held guilty for contempt. Sh. Vilasrao Deshmukh was in town with regard to certain election Wardha MLC election and he said if this order is not stayed by the Supreme Court and Havoc could be created we'll face a very important or very drastic law and order situation and I told him if you go by your bureaucratic set up you will not be possible to get a stay in one order so he immediately directed the chief secretary to issue a GR authorizing me to take all the steps for filing an SLP and pleading on behalf of the state government. We had engaged two senior lawyers I would not name them on both the calls they did not turn up and as was the then practice in the Supreme Court that if on a second call the scenario is not there it is for the a or the council who is present there to argue the matter this is how I got an opportunity to argue that matter and get that drastic order stayed fortunately the Supreme Court monitored that matter and directed regularization of the slum dwellers by providing by directing the state government to provide a scheme for their rehabilitation.

As a government pleader I got an opportunity to oppose many scholars like Mr Manohar, Mr Bhau Sahab Bobde, CG Marulkar, Mr Parichikar and another of my father's friends who was at that time I think the only senior council in Nagpur Mr KS Deshpandey. If I had not accepted the office of the government I would have missed the opportunity to face such giants today except Mr Manohar from that generation nobody's with us today I was fortunate enough to get blessings of one of the most respected figures that I consider Mr VR Manohar when I had come last to meet him in Nagpur I had assured him that in my first visit to Nagpur after I take oath as a CJI I will come to seek his blessings and the happiness which I noticed on his face today I have no words to express. he was full of blessings for me he was full of best wishes for me. As in 2003 what justice Bobde had predicted came true in 2000 within I had assumed the office in January and in September October when justice BP Singh came to Nagpur he asked my age and he said you will have to now wait till you complete 40 and that's how then I had to wait for almost about 2 And then again I was in Dalima as to whether to accept the Judgeship or not because waiting period at that time like Mr Daga like Mr Sharad Bobde was also long for us but then my father said that if you practice what you earn is only money but if you accept the office of a judge you can contribute to the ideals of Dr Ambedkar of social and economic justice and I must say that it was again a very good decision on my part to abide by his mandamus. As a judge by that time the when I was elevated prior to that all the judges who were elevated from Nagpur we were refusing to sit in Nagpur because of the including Justice Daga including justice Bobde all of them went to Mumbai and but I opted to be in Nagpur after my oath my first sitting was coincidentally with Justice Daga was on a visiting assignment at Nagpur now I must say that my first sitting with him was an opportunity to learn.  He encouraged me to write the judgments from the very first week that I joined the bar and what I learned from him was his meticulousness. I gave him a draft hoping that it will be approved as it is it came back with so many circles semicircles then this arrow above this arrow down and this is the meticulousness in working which I then tried to imbibe in my future journeyI have had sittings with many senior judges largely when I was in Nagpur I was after a short stint with Justice Raga made to sit as a single judge and one of the Sitting with which I must make reference to is justice Arunbhau Parichikar. My judgments used to be lengthy when we sat on a criminal assignment i wrote a judgment of around 40 pages and gave it to him so he called me in chamber he said then he to the judgment in my presence and he said come back send the judgment in 10 pages. This is how and I tried to imbibe precision in my judgments as a thereafter I completed my full circle from here I went to Aurangabad from Aurangabad to Bombay and from Bombay to Goa for a short period to come back again to Nagpur and then I was here for a longer period.

I got opportunity to head the public interest education bench work as a administrative judge here and many of those were part of my benches as a senior judge or junior judge are present in the audience today. Two of the Supreme Court judges Justice Varale and Justice AM Deshpandey Justice Sukare were in benches with me on many occasions justice VP Dharmadhikari who was later on to add on the office of the chief justice of this very high court and justice RK Deshpandey. I had a very satisfying tenure at all the four benches wherever I went I received a lot of love and affection from the colleagues there and from the bar associations there and therefore, though earlier I was of the view that I may not accept felicitations accept Nagpur but then I modified it and I said that I will go to the places where I had worked as a judge and received the warm the love and affection from the members of Arurangabad and Goa. I think I'm already crossing my time limit we'll try to wind up within 10 minutes as a judge I as a judge of the high court at Nagpur or Mumbai, I got many opportunities to decide matters which had a angle of social and economic justice. we had issues pertaining to the ground realities and the problems of the societies one of such matters was argued by the learned solicitor general who was the ASG then at Mumbai along with Mr anil Singh was also ASG as a judge presiding over the PI in Nagpur i was happy to see to it that the Nagpur-Jabalpur Highway which was languishing for years together and which had witnessed more than 100 deaths due to the accidents and we for the first time adopted the model of sustainable development while ensuring that the highway is constructed also ensuring that the ecology and the interest of the wildlife is maintained by providing for long subways so that the animals from one part of the jungle while traveling to the another part of the jungle they find that they are traveling in the same jungle. Justice  Dangre was the government pleader the high court had passed some the bench presided over by I think Justice Varale was sitting with me we had passed an order permitting the trees for the construction of the highway, the NGT had passed some order and then the officers of the forest department and the collectors received a notice of contempt from the NGT faced with this situation Justice Dangre was then government pleader came to the bench and asked we have two orders one passed by your lordship and the other passed by NGT what should we do so I replied that we don't possess an advisory jurisdiction it is for you to decide as to whether you will abide by an order of the constitutional court or by a statutory tribunal and then in that matter. I got an opportunity to lay down a law with regard to the subordination of the even national tribunals to the high courts at least within their territorial jurisdictions as a high court judge you have always doubts but fortunately that judgment was also upheld by the Supreme Court.

I was immensely pleased to contribute to the health infrastructure in the region of Vidharbha in a continuing PIL that is pending before the high court my dear friend Jugal Kishar Birla who was the only lawyer when I came to Nagpur from Bombay except Mr VR Manohar and Mr Bhau Sahab Bobde and Mr Sunil Manor who are known to me and he gave me a space to keep my Basta on his table. I was sitting with him till after gradually I developed accordance with just Bobde and the others and shifted to the bar council room. With that PIL we could pass so many orders for augmentation of the facilities in the IGMC and the government medical college by judicial order passed we directed increase of 100 seats in the government medical college, IGMC and the medical colleges at Akola and was medical college at Yawatmal. In the very same year Anil Killor through his Janmanch had filed a PIL for establishment of medical college at Chundrapur and at Gundia and as usual the medical council of India was acting as a stumble block now noticing that the medical council of India was very generous in granting permissions to the private medical colleges and very stingy in granting permissions to the government medical college. I was sitting with Justice Huq and I asked him Supreme Court he said and we passed judicial orders for establishment of two medical colleges one at Gundya and one at Chundrapur with an intake capacity of 100 students so in one year the capacity of seats in the region of Vidharbha was enhanced by 600 years fortunately again those orders were upheld by the Supreme Court. I could in a PIL jurisdiction unearth many scams be it a scam in public does works division of division number one of Nagpur or a irrigation scam and could augment the development of Gossikur's Dam so that the irrigation potential of Vidharbha increases. There was again a problem at Nagpur with regard to the religious structures at Nagpur religious structures of various religions be Mandir, Gurudwardas, stupas mazjis, fortunately we could resolve that issue amicably and save the religious places around 15,000 in the city of Nagpur. As I said yesterday and which is flagged by Justice Datta, I always felt that judicial activism was necessary because whenever the executive or the legislature failed the judiciary had to step in so as to act as a constitutional custodian of the rights of the citizens but I always also felt that the all the three wings should work within the spears allotted to them and though judicial activism is there to stay it should never turn into judicial adventurism or judicial terrorism. I still believe in the same principle there are cases and cases to which I can make reference to but I'm already exceeding my time. In 2019 with blessings of all of you I got elevated to the Supreme Court and in last 6 years. I have been the journey so far has been satisfying I could author many judgments including some of the constitution given judgments some judgments of five bench five judges bench some judgments of seven judges bench. I can only say that whenever I got an opportunity be it as a lawyer or as a government pleader as a judge of the high court or as a judge of the Supreme Court I always considered is an opportunity to serve the society and serve the nation judgeship is not of a job it's a service to the society service to the nation. And I always put myself in the role of a student as a when I went to Bombay and when I was made to sit on the original side various new subjects were allotted to me and I looked at that from the point of view of a student. when I was made to sit on IPR or when I was made to sit on an indirect tax bench I requested the bar members to treat me as students in that wing and take my tuition classes for 15 days and I could say with a sense of satisfaction that in IPR, I could lay down the law which was incorrectly being followed by the Bombay High Court for almost 50 years. Even in a Supreme Court I always put myself in a chair of a student whenever a new subject has come to me I have studied it as a student of law and I always say and believe in the principle that a lawyer and a judge is a student always and till end is a student and the day he feels that he has mastered everything that is the end of a career of a lawyer as a lawyer and a judge as a judge.

As a judge I always believed in doing what I thought of was right. When I was given a judicial assignment of the judicial officers in Bombay one matter with regard to a pension of a judge who was I won't name his present here who was sent on a deputation as a chairman of the university tribunal but denied the pension as a high court judge on the ground that he was not made permanent and he was strong enough to stand on principles he said that he will not accept a single penny unless the high court judge's pension is made available to him. I decided in his favor and the man who was without pension a retired judge of the high court for 3 years got his pension after a fight for 3 years. There was another matter which I decided that against the administration next week my assignment was changed the judicial officer's assignment was taken and given to somebody other than me. that never affected my resolve to do my duties as per my oath. Fortunately as a judge of the Supreme Court and as a Chief Justice of India in one of the first judgment that I delivered with regard to high court judges pensions issues I could without referring to my own judgment uphold my view that all judges including the additional judges are the high court judges and entitled to the same pension. I applied the principle of one rank one pension some of the judges were living in penury. I was a came to know that a retired judge in some high court was getting a pension of 7 to 8,000. We talk about independence of judiciary we talk about dignitance dignity to the office of the high court judge and we deny him even a pension a basic pension these are the matters which have really given me an immense pleasure as justice Killor has referred my father taught me one principle he said and I saw him not only preaching it but practicing practicing it one of his very close associates when he started his political career on account of the factions in RPI shifted to another faction and he became his very Vocal opponent and he used to at times cross the borders of dissency and unfortunately he fell ill. My father took him to the hospital he admitted him to the hospital and he told the doctors that gave him the best of the treatment he brought him to Nagpur was Amrawati did not have a good medical center that time and he said all expenses will be born by me he came out of the difficult situation and was again fit to resume his political journey. My father went to meet him again and he expressed remorse he in spite of me doing all this to you. You have done this to me my father told him you don't worry now you are fully fit i will continue with my work you continue with what you are doing prior to your getting ill. So this principle I have followed tried to follow so I don't know I have a tend to follow to what extent I have been successful in it. The jury will decide it on 23rd of November. In my journey there has been a contribution of many i have already referred to the contributions of my father mother my family members my friends, the lawyers, my juniors, the seniors with whom I learned a lot the seniors appearing against whom I learned a lot the seniors assisting whom I learned a lot. The hard work of juniors which on the basis of which your arguments are based my colleagues, the senior colleagues in the Supreme Court as well as the senior colleagues in the Supreme Court and my junior colleagues, I always considered it to be an experience of mutual learning like I gave example of justice Daga justice Palshikar, when I was sitting with justice VM Deshpandey, I learned to read the evidence in vernacular. He said the translations are at time deceptive and therefore even today in supreme, though in southern language it is become difficult but in northern languages I tried to read the evidence in Vernacular. The staffs of the high court the supreme court without which you can't work your stenographers. I had the excellence of stenographers at Mumbai Aurangabad and Nagpur Mumbai. In Supreme Court it is difficult to work without the assistance of the law clerks. On Mondays and Fridays when you have a list of 60 to 70 matters unless the team of your law clerks abley assist you, you can't do that otherwise it's like a test day match and you can't finish the bench board by evening. I've had very 17 very excellent 17 law clerks so far from 2019 till now. Four of my lo clerks are present in the audience Srikant Verma, Abishek Karnik Bharat Kiloor and Parikshit Chitle. The family's contribution is also immense a lot of sacrifices are required by your better halves and your children, I received full support from my wife Tejaswini and daughter Karishma and son Jyotiraditya and of course you also require critics to correct yourself. Critics are always in the family but I had two very eminent critics one a senior colleague at the bench and not senior but elevated shortly after me in Justice Dilip Kernik and Justice Wasanti Niak they were frank open to point out to me whenever I was wrong and I must admit that I following their advice, attempted to make correctional measures and so therefore when you felicitate me today you are not felicitating Bushan Gavai you are felicitating all those who have made him chief justice of India. You are felicitating the Nagpur High Court Bar Association whose product is Chief Justice Bushan Gavai and I must say with the matter of right I will always like to remain in the depth of this association which has given me everything which has made me what I am today and but one thing I must say with a matter of pride that within a period of fortnight, the college headed by the chief justice of India from Nagpur has given a gift to the Nagpur Bar association Justice Adul Zandurkar. I congratulate him. I have noted the suggestions of this Deepankar Duta. I think we are following transparency. We are interacting the candidates and we find that that interaction works we have tried to maintain seniority and the merit in the matters of selection and justice Chandurkar a living example of that and therefore no doubt I will be addressing the concerns. I won't thank you. I won't only I will only say that I will always be indebted to this land which has given me name, fame and abundance of love and affection. Please continue to shower that and bless me that my future journey is also as wonderful as last 40 years as a lawyer and Judge.

Thank you. 

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