PRESENTATION

OF
FORMER
SUPREME
COURT
JUSTICE
OF
INDIA
JUSTICE A.K.GANGULY

HISTORY
Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly is the former
Chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights
Commission and a former Judge of the Supreme
Court of India.
Justice Ganguly was born on 3 February 1947.[4]
He graduated in M.A (English) from University of
Calcutta in 1968 and then passed LLB from the
same university in 1970.
He remained in the apex court for more than 3
years and had served as Chief Justice in different
states.

NOTABLE JUDGEMENTS

2G spectrum scam
The Emergency (India)
President's power of pardon
Imposed Rs. 1 million fine on Maharashtra state
govt

Contd
2G spectrum case: On 2 February 2012 the bench of Justice AK Ganguly &
Justice GS Singhvi quashed 122 2G licenses issued in the
year 2008 by A. Raja, then "Union Telecom Minister. On A.
Raja, the then Cabinet Minister of Communications and
IT ;"The nature of the complaint is serious. You (CBI) have
not done anything and he (Raja) is continuing as a minister.
Is this the way the government functions?" Observation by
Justice Ganguly while hearing the famous 2G Spectrum case
Emergency-"There is no doubt that the majority judgement
of this court in the ADM Jabalpur case violated the
fundamental rights of a large number of people in this
country," Justice Ganguly observed

Contd.
Imposed Rs. 1 million fine on Maharashtra state govt. In a
judgement delivered on 14 December 2010 by Justice Ganguly, as a
Supreme Court Judge, he imposed Rs. 1 million fine on Maharashtra state
govt. on a complaint that the then chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh
influenced police against registering an FIR against MLA Dilip Kumar
Sananda. The court said that "The (former) chief minister should not have
interfered with the criminal justice system." Observing that the message
conveyed in this case is "extremely shocking", the court directed that the
fine amount collected should be used for the welfare of the distressed
farmers.[6] It was alleged that then Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's
personal secretary Amba Das had called up the then district superintendent
of police (SP) to inform that the chief minister did not want any FIR to be
registered in the case. Accordingly, the SP asked his subordinates not to
register any FIR but reportedly recorded the same in its file. Aggrieved by
the refusal of the police to register an FIR, the victims approached the
Bombay High Court which, apart from ordering registration of an FIR, also
imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the state. But the state govt challenged
Bombay High Court's verdict in Supreme Court of India.

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