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J.S Verma: Justice

Jagdish Sharan Verma was an influential Indian jurist who served as the 27th Chief Justice of India and chaired the National Human Rights Commission. He is renowned for his judicial activism and landmark judgments, particularly in relation to women's empowerment and fundamental rights. Verma also led the Justice Verma Committee, which proposed amendments to criminal law following the 2012 Delhi gang rape case.

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J.S Verma: Justice

Jagdish Sharan Verma was an influential Indian jurist who served as the 27th Chief Justice of India and chaired the National Human Rights Commission. He is renowned for his judicial activism and landmark judgments, particularly in relation to women's empowerment and fundamental rights. Verma also led the Justice Verma Committee, which proposed amendments to criminal law following the 2012 Delhi gang rape case.

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J.

S VERMA

Jagdish Sharan Verma (18 January 1933 – 22 April 2013) was an Indian jurist
who served as the 27th chief Justice of India Form 25 March 1997 TO 18
January 1998. He was the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission
from 1999 to 2003, and chairman of the justice verma committee Report on
Amendments to criminal law after the 2012 Delhi gang rape case. He remains
one India’s most highly regarded chief justices and eminent jurists in history.
He was known for his judicial innovation through landmark judgement, which
made him “the face if judicial activism” In India. His decisions were credited
with the forging of powerful new judicial tools such as continuing mandamus,
and the expanded protection of fundamental rights as in the vishaka
judgement. Alongside judicial activism and fundamental rights protection, he
was strongly associated with women’s empowerment, probity in public life,
judicial accountability, as well as enhancing social justice.

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