In an unprecedented show of solidarity with Justice B. Sudershan Reddy, the Opposition’s candidate for Vice President, 18 former judges of the Supreme Court and various high courts have issued a statement criticising Union home minister Amit Shah’s recent attack on him and the Supreme Court for the 2011 Salwa Judum judgment outlawing Chhattisgarh’s use of armed vigilantes against the Naxalite insurgency.
The 2011 judgment was delivered by Justice Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar, who has since died. The judgment itself came as part of a gradual build-up of judicial orders by different benches of the Supreme Court which heard a PIL filed by Nandini Sundar and others in 2007 seeking justice for the adivasi victims of human rights violations being committed by the vigilante Salwa Judum squads.
25/08/2025