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Justice Nazeer was promoted to judge in the Supreme Court of India on February 17 2017. He became the third judge ever to be elevated in this way, without first becoming the chief justice of some high court. He then retired on January 4 2023.
The court may have perhaps missed an opportunity to clarify the true extent or limits to the guarantee of the currency by the state.
It is worth repeating that a judgment based on secret evidence is no judgment at all: it fails the most basic tests of the rule of law in a constitutional democracy.
The Court held that there was a reasonable nexus to bring such a measure, and that demonetisation was not hit by the doctrine of proportionality.
Demonetisation Judgement by SC: Justice BV Nagarathna, who did not agree with the four other justices, said that the process of banning Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes could not have been initiated by the Centre.