When the Supreme Court upheld the Union Government’s 2016 demonetisation exercise in January 2023, one judge disagreed. Justice Bangalore Venkataramiah Nagarathna, the lone dissenter on the five-judge Constitution Bench, held that the withdrawal of the ₹500 and ₹1,000 currency notes had been carried out through a legally impermissible process. Her record of dissent continued in … Continue reading Justice B. V. Nagarathna: A Career of Constitutional Dissent, & the Road to India’s First Woman CJI