RAMESH RANGANATHAN, V.V.S.RAO
In re. Government of Andhra Pradesh – Appellant
Versus
. – Respondent
Per V.V.S. Rao,J.
PROLOGUE This ‘matter extraordinaire’ is an extraordinary case. It stands apart from many peculiar cases that have been resolved by this summit Court if Judicature, Andhra Pradesh, in its more than five decades long journey in striving to dispense justice with constitutional vision. The adjudication this case is concerned with the protection life and liberty of people and property. Hence, we shall deal with competing concerns with delicate touch. To enter a caveat, though we are seriously concerned; the standard of judicial review is neither strict scrutiny nor is it a dialogic. It is only the differential, judicial review, to find solution, at least, for the present.
2. Indian democracy can neither survive nor sustain without an independent judiciary. A well administered, organized and managed hierarchical Court structure and user friendly judicial management system is sine qua non for democratic polity which “solemnly resolved” the Constitutional rule of law. To promote such rule, there has to be thus no nonsense ‘ Court Security System’ with ‘battlefit preparedness’ as mission and firmly established confidence invoking special security processes and
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