Overview

• He delivered the inaugural Sir Maurice Rault Memorial Lecture at the University of Mauritius during a three-day official visit attended by Mauritius’ president, prime minister and chief justice.
• He declared that governance cannot rest on punitive demolitions, invoking his 2024 ruling that condemned so-called ‘bulldozer’ actions.
• The judgment found such demolitions bypass legal process, violate the Article 21 right to shelter, and allow the executive to act as judge, jury and executioner.
• He traced a jurisprudential line through Kesavananda Bharati, Maneka Gandhi, privacy, triple talaq, adultery and the electoral bond decision to show how arbitrariness is curtailed.
• He cast the rule of law as an ethical framework grounded in dignity, referenced Gandhi and Ambedkar, and cautioned against market-friendly models that marginalize subaltern voices.