Source: Newz Hook <https://newzhook.com/story/21163>
In this week's guest column, Dr Sanjay Jain shares his view on the recent Supreme Court order upholding a 50% disability limit in hearing and vision disability for the post of a judicial officer. The judgement delivered by the Supreme Court in V. Surendra Mohan v. State of Tamil Nadu last week, through the division bench comprising of Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice K M Joseph falls foul both on the count of law as well as on morality. In my modest opinion, an unelected branch of Government does not have the moral competence to exclude any class of people with disability from entering into the institution of judiciary. There is no empirical basis behind the claim raised arbitrarily by the Division Bench in their judgement that more than 50% partially blind person is ineligible from and unsuitable for holding judicial office. Read the complete article here: https://newzhook.com/story/21163 Warm Regards Ramya Venkitesh BarrierBreak Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
