No case too big or small for any court in country: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud in response to Law minister’s remark | News – Times of India Videos

Trust us (the courts) to be guardians of the citizens’ rights and liberties and know that no case is small enough said the Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud on Saturday citing a case the SC decided on Friday where it intervened in a matter where a magistrate forgot to write “concurrently” while sentencing a man for theft of electricity to two years’ imprisonment in nine cases. The 50th CJI delivering his first talk as CJI in Mumbai. It was the Memorial Lecture on ‘ Law and Morality: Bounds and reaches’ at Y B CHavan hall where he said “Our Constitution is an educational document which tries to create a new moral order in society. However the principles of non discrimination and substantive equality will only be effective if social stratification is ironed out to create a true equality.”