Supreme Court Judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan has asserted that the goal of a Viksit Bharat by 2047 cannot be achieved through criminalisation of dissent, mindless arrests under the anti-terror law UAPA and "deep social fault lines".
Speaking at the first national conference of the Supreme Court
Bar Association (SCBA) in Bengaluru on Sunday, Justice Bhuyan also lamented the poor representation of women in the higher judiciary.
He contrasted it with the figure of more than 50 per cent women making it to the posts of judicial officers in district judiciary across the country.