Justices Kumar and Justice KV Viswanathan also candidly said that the judges are yet to go through the new criminal laws in order to form their opinions around the same.
“We had no opportunity to go through the new law and go through the provisions. There is no question of forming opinions.. and that is why I do not even read the newspapers. I have not seen the act as yet,” Justice Kumar quipped.
In his address earlier in the day, Justice Kumar said that the Basic Structure doctrine propounded by the Supreme Court in the case of Keshavananda Bharati vs. State of Kerala protects the Constitution from being a replaced by a new one under the guise of Constitutional amendment by a majoritarian parliament.
Source: Barandbench
