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Remembering Satyashodhak Judge P.B. Sawant s Anti-Caste Legacy While several senior activists, politicians and sociologists gained immensely from Justice Sawant s scholarship, it was the youth who he was particularly keen on with interacting. Justice P.B. Sawant speaking at a BAMCEF annual convention. Photo: BAMCEF Rights16/Feb/2021 Mumbai: Soon after his retirement from the Supreme Court in 1995, Justice P.B. Sawant began his socio-political journey. The annual convention of the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (abbreviated as BAMCEF) was the first such public appearance, but not the only one. While Justice Sawant went on to attend over 15-16 such BAMCEF national conventions, the 2020 convention being the last one, he also remained committed to a wide range of social movements across the state. âAnnihilation of caste was at the heart of such engagements,â recalls D.D. Ambade, national treasurer of BAMCEF. ....
Late Justice PB Sawant Played a Stellar Role in Drafting and Campaigning for the RTI Act in India 0 The tenacious campaign for the passing of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, which was steered by Aruna Roy’s National Campaign for Peoples’ Right to Information (NCPRI) in the 1990s, received great impetus, thanks to justice PB Sawant, who, as chairman of the Press Council of India, insisted on drafting the law. On Monday, at the age of 90, justice Sawant peacefully passed away due to cardiac arrest at his home in Pune.
While the law drafted by him went through a series of updates through several committees later, Nikhil Dey, founder member of NCPRI, says that justice Sawant’s conviction that media must also fight for access to information, spurred him to volunteer to write the first ever draft of the RTI Act. And for that, Justice Sawant took immense efforts to ensure that it was strong enough for citizen’s access to information from public authoriti ....
Remembering Justice P.B. Sawant: The Last of the Creative Judges Justice Sawant was a rare judge who had strong political convictions, and yet is remembered for his impartial judgments. Justice P.B. Sawant. Photo: Twitter/@Devinder Sharma Law15/Feb/2021 Eminent legal academic, the late S.P. Sathe once described the judges in India as products of a legal education that emphasises what the law is, rather than the process by which it is continuously developed. Law is depicted through rote learning as a body of fixed and immutable rules, rather than something that, in the hands of a creative judiciary, always has evolutionary potential, he had observed.  ....