The tenure of a chief justice is an index of the functioning of the entire judiciary. Now that Justice NV Ramana has retired, it is time to take a look at his verdicts and judicial administration.
The 11 persons convicted of multiple murders and gangrape of a pregnant Bilkis Bano in 2002 during the Gujarat riots walked free from Godhra subjail on August 15, 2022. They brutally killed her three-year-old daughter by smashing her head on the ground and six other persons on March 3, 2002. The story thereafter is one of great struggle to bring the guilty to book.