The Fearless Judge : The Life and Times of Justice A.M. Ahmadi

One of India’s best-known judges, Justice Ahmadi was a true trailblazer. Chief Justice of India from 1994 to 1997, he was celebrated for being a ‘Citizen’s Judge’ – he fiercely safeguarded fundamental rights, upheld the tenets of the Constitution, and advocated for the swift delivery of justice. Ahmadi rose from the mofussil courts of Ahmedabad to the top position in the Supreme Court in an extraordinary career that spanned three decades. He was involved in several of independent India’s most critical cases that have shaped our jurisprudence – from Bommai, which defined the limits of central authority over state governments, and T.N. Seshan, which demarcated the powers and composition of the Election Commission, to Indira Sawhney, which shaped reservation policies, and L.Chandra Kumar, which reinforced the independence of the judiciary and separation of powers with the executive.