New Delhi: After more than five years as the Minister of Law and Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad left his inheritance for the successor to the Rijiju Kiren which began with the enactment of a controversial national justice promise and included a spectrum including Ayodhya and the Rafale case.
Prasad’s ownership, from July 2016 to July 2021 in addition to holding a portfolio from May 2014 to November 2014, is the second only for legendary senior advocates Ashok Sen, which is the Minister of Law from May 1957 to January 1966.
Prasad will now continue profitable practice at Court after the minister.
Ining Prasad as Minister of Law under the PM Narendra Modi in 2014 began with a signature reform law in Njac, which was intended to replace the colleagium system of judges to choose the candidate for the appointment as a judge, a system that was also favored by the judicial and lawyers as public as a form of opaque Although most are considered an independent process of the executive.
But the law, continued unanimously by parliament, and ratified by more than 20 states, was shocked by the Supreme Court in 2015, which felt that the presence of the Minister of Law in the Judge’s removal commission would paralyze independence, appointments intrinsic meetings for me t.
In the following year, friction between the judiciary and executive became clear with the government through the legal information of objections with several recommendations for the appointment of judges on one or other reasons.
However, when questioned administratively and justice, by the Supreme Court for the appointment appointment that appeared revenge, Prasad launched statistics to eliminate perceptions.
He said in 2016, the center appointed a 126 HC judge’s record against the annual average of 70-80 judges in the past decade.
Landmarks are a resolution of disputes over the land of Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri in Ayodhya.
A round of five judges in a round voice was awarded the land title to Hindus, while providing a five-acre plot to Muslims to build a mosque.
His ownership also saw the Ministry of Law handling several litigation controversy including the Rafale purchase agreement, spitting between the Director of CBI and the Special Director and the National Herald case that was politically sensitive.
However, he is always proud of revoking nearly 1,500 ancient laws that have clogged the system for decades.
His tenure also saw the national judicial data network settings and digitizing 15,000 trial courts.