Chief Justice

The Supreme Court Collegium has finally recommended Saurabh Kirpal's name to the Union Ministry of Law and Justice for judgeship, which could make him the first openly gay judge in India.

It is essentially a document that sets out a patient's wishes regarding how they want to be treated if they are seriously ill. With this judgement, the right to die with dignity has been recognised as a fundamental right.

"Human beings have the right to die with dignity," the bench said while announcing the ruling.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said that the restriction on enrolment of women contained in the advertisements was "neither reasonable nor rational and has to be quashed."

Helmed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, who is India’s 45th Chief Justice, we look at some of the important cases that will be heard, and hopefully decided in 2018.

He earned a reputation of being a ‘smuggler’s lawyer’ after he defended Haji Mastan, in a smuggling case.