Supreme Court doesn’t interfere with policy matters, says CJI Gavai

Outlining the role played by the judiciary in India’s economic journey, Chief Justice of India B R Gavai Saturday said that “the Supreme Court has ensured that it does not interfere in the policy matters which have economic considerations involved unless there is a violation of fundamental rights or other provisions of the Constitution.”

Speaking at the ‘6th Full Meeting of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts’ on the topic ‘Commercial Law and the 75th Anniversary of the India’s Constitution’, the CJI said that “each decade since 1991” when the country’s economy was liberalised “has deepened the partnership between law, economy, and justice, ensuring that India’s growth story remains not only commercially robust but constitutionally grounded.”

He said that “throughout th