NUALS Cochin confers honorary doctorate on ex-SC judge Krishna Iyer

Monday, 18 October 2010 By Legally India Law schools

NUALS Cochin has awarded an honorary Doctor of Law (LL.D.) to former Supreme Court of India judge VR Krishna Iyer.

The Executive Council of the university awarded the honoris cause to Iyer in light of his “immense contributions to the growth of jurisprudence and to the cause of law and justice”.

In 1957 Iyer became a minister in the first ever Communist government in Kerala headed by E. M. S. Nampoothiripad and held the portfolios of Home, Law, Irrigation and Social Welfare. He was instrumental to the Kerala Land Reforms Act, which brought about a drastic change in the land holding pattern prevailing at that time, and as a Supreme Court judge was later responsible for a wide interpretation of Article 21 of the Constitution, to make the constitutional safeguards of life and liberty more accessible to the underprivileged.

VR Krishna Iyer

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Anonymous guest 22 Oct 2010, 03:37

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Justice Krishna Iyer is a legend no doubt. I will remember for that day when he gave conditional stay to Indira Gandhi in 1975 and allowed her to remain a member of the parliament. It was quite surprising. But it was only Justice HR Khanna who had the courage to not give endorsement to the Emergency. He was the real hero. The judges of that generation were truly legendary. I sometimes remember those days and the acute hardships we went through as young advocates. It was different era altogether.

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