Overview

• Gavai warned of unique systemic challenges in India’s judiciary, citing decades-long trial delays that leave undertrials imprisoned for years before acquittal.
• Speaking at NALSAR University’s convocation, he encouraged law graduates to pursue foreign studies on scholarships to avoid crippling debt and stressed that overseas degrees do not determine one’s worth.
• He stressed the importance of integrity-based mentorship over influence-driven guidance and urged senior professionals to open doors and share wisdom with new lawyers.
• At the same address, Gavai highlighted the isolating and emotionally taxing nature of legal practice and called for greater mental health awareness and peer support networks.
• In a distinguished lecture at Osmania University, he described the Constitution’s Directive Principles as a roadmap for legislators and emphasized the need to deliver economic, social and political justice to the nation’s most vulnerable.