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Ranjan Gogoi Quotes

born 1954 India

Ranjan Gogoi (born 18 November 1954) is an Indian retired jurist and advocate who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India from 2018 to 2019. He is currently a Member of the Rajya Sabha, having been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020.

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I chose not to shirk what I inherited from my predecessors but to bite the bullet and to lead the adjudication of one of India’s oldest-standing disputes.

Justice for the Judge (2021)

I see Uniform Civil Code as a very progressive piece of legislation, which will replace diverse customary practices that have evolved into laws […] I think it is a very important step towards national integration.

Most of the people who studied court and law are oblivious of the experiences of the ordinary people who undertake the journey to get justice from the court. The judges are called on to decide their fate are witnesses to their fate and grit. Task of a judge, to my mind, therefore, is to sit with text of law in context of life.

You are not questioning anything. We are in a conversation.

Report cards are prepared at the end of the tenure of judge. The message is clear: a good report will come at a cost; if you are not prepared to confirm to a particular way of thinking and act accordingly, you will earn the dubious reputation of having compromised and surrendered the independence of the judiciary.

Justice for the Judge (2021)

There is a practice in the bar that when a judgeship is offered you don't refuse. When the President […] makes an offer, you don't refuse.

Media exercised exceptional discretion to prevent canards, falsehoods from clogging news space. At trying times, the stellar role of journalists as defenders of truth and democratic ideals came to the fore.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ranjan Gogoi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.