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Lack of infra remains biggest challenge for NCLAT's Justice Mukhopadhaya

At 69, with about seven months to go before his superannuation, Justice Mukhopadhaya often rues that he is racing against time to complete as many cases as he can

Justice S J Mukhopadhaya
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Justice S J Mukhopadhaya

Aashish Aryan New Delhi
For retired Supreme Court judge and current chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), Justice Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya, challenging the status quo is not an alien idea.
 
In 2013, he was part of the two-member bench that controversially recriminalised homosexuality, overturning a landmark Delhi High Court judgement. In upholding the notorious British-era section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, Mukhopadhaya, along with Justice G S Singhvi offered two remarkable reasons for doing so: that only a minuscule fraction of the country’s population constituted LGBTQ and that in more than 150 years, less than 200 people had been
Topics : NCLAT

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