Chief Justice of India B R Gavai Friday said that the five-judge Constitution bench which decided on the Presidential Reference matter had relied only on “swadeshi interpretation.”

“In our yesterday’s judgment, we did not use a single foreign judgment and we have observed that we used swadeshi interpretation,” the CJI said, sharing the ceremonial bench sitting in Court No.1 ahead of his retirement on Sunday. It is customary to hold a ceremonial bench sitting whenever a judge retires.

CJI Gavai was responding to remarks by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta who said, “after your taking over and with Justice Surya Kant, a fresh breeze of Indianness in our jurisprudence has started flowing in, which is seen in the judgments.” Justice Surya Kant will succeed CJI Gavai as the 53rd Chief Justice o

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