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Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer and Expansive Interpretation of Fundamental Rights

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Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer and Expansive Interpretation of Fundamental Rights
JUSTICE V. R. KRISHNA IYER AND
EXPANSIVE INTERPRETATION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

AUTHORED BY:SHAILESH KUMAR, ROLL NO. 262, 9TH SEMESTER, 5 TH YEAR , CHANAKYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, NYAYA NAGAR, M ITHAPUR , PATNA - 800001.
E-MAIL ID : shailesh.baranwal@gmail.com

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A.C. AIR C.J. CJI CriLJ J. LLJ p. Para pp. SC SCC UOI vol.

Appealed Cases All India Reporter Chief Justice Chief Justice of India Criminal Law Journal Judge Labour Law Journal Page Paragraph Pages Supreme Court Supreme Court Cases Union of India Volume

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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi

AN INTRODUCTION- NOT NEEDED! Padma Vibhushan Vaidyanathpuram Rama Ayyar Krishna Iyer, as per his name, has done many godly works and has contributed hugely to the society and the legal fraternity with the help of his expansive interpretation of provisions of Part III of the Constitution of India which is unparalleled and can’t be aped by anyone in the near future.

V. R. KRISHNA IYER- AN ‘ADJECTIVE’ PERSONALITY Justice Iyer is a person who has tried throughout his life to be such change. He is a Karmyogi1, an intellectual, a pro-poor, a crusading maverick2 and along with all these, as the literature world considers him, a genius of vocabulary. Karmyogi, for his duty is life itself, for his tireless efforts to the service of society and widening the horizon of social-justice and his endless contribution as a judge and jurist; intellectual, for he was praised as a ‘great intellectual and a great gentleman’, a man who opened the court’s doors wider to the poor, the needy and the indigent, & ‘helped humanize our legal system’3; a pro-poor, for he was quoted being unabashedly pro-poor, pro-downtrodden, & pro-weaker sections and the Supreme Court’s first

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Justice Krishna Iyer at 90, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, 2005 Edition, p. 142 (K. M. Mathew in

his speech at 87th Birthday felicitation

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