Overview

• Speaking to a Supreme Court lawyers' group, BR Gavai said the verdict gave him and Justice KV Viswanathan “immense satisfaction.”
• The bench’s 2024 ruling condemned arbitrary demolitions as lawless and issued pan-India procedures to regulate the tearing down of illegal structures.
• Gavai emphasized that equal authorship credit belongs to Viswanathan for the judgment popularly called the bulldozer case.
• He argued that a Chief Justice’s impact is not tied to tenure length, pointing to short-tenure predecessors who left a strong imprint.
• He highlighted efforts to upgrade judicial infrastructure, fast-track High Court appointments and elevate young Supreme Court practitioners, while noting he retires in November.