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V. R. Krishna Iyer
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V. R. Krishna Iyer is known as the person who removed all remaining traces of colonialism from India's Supreme Court. He was the one who contributed to the creation of a distinctive body of legal precedent that enabled the average person to get justice. His departments included lag, justice, home, irrigation, power, prisons, social welfare, electricity, and inland navigation while he was a minister in the Keralan ledning of Shri E.M.S. Namboodiripad. He was none other than Justice VR Krishna Iyer.
He was a well-respected Judge with a long political history who has served on the Supreme Court. Referred to as the conscience guardian of justice in India, Justice Krishna Iyer possessed certain attributes that made him a unique judge.
Early Life and Education
On November 15, , in Vaidyanathapuram by in Palakkad, which was then a part of the Malabar area of the former Madras State, Krishna Iyer was born into a Tamil Brahmin family. His moth
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V R Krishna Iyer: A Long Life in Law and Politics
I am grateful to Gautam Bhatia, George Gadbois, Michael Gee, Mathew John, K S Madhu, Vijarayaraghavan Narasimhan, Suhrith Parthasarathy, and V Venkatesan for their assistance. My views are entirely personal.
I was 12 when I first heard of Krishna Iyer. It was a steamy Madras morning in July That day’s Indian Express announced that the retired judge would be the Opposition’s presidential candidate. He was to face R Venkataraman, the Congress (I) nominee. All of us knew who Venkataraman was. As the incumbent vice-president, he was a familiar face. But I had never heard of Krishna Iyer. “Who is he?” I asked my father who was shaving. “Oh, a communist”, he replied. What a disaster, I thought to myself, if he became president. With relief, I watched Venkataraman declared elected on television.
I next encountered Iyer in law school. He was constantly mentioned in class after class. Some professors believed he was the world’s gr
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Kochi, Dec 4 (PTI) : Eminent jurist V R Krishna Iyer, a left-leaning intellectual who had stood for the rights of the downtrodden and reinterpreted bail jurisprudence as a Supreme Court judge, died today.
Justice Iyer, who turned on November 13, breathed his last at a private hospital here following multiple organ failure.
He was admitted to the private Medical Trust hospital on November He died at PM, Hospital Managing Director P V Antony and Cardiologist Dr Manu R Varma, who treated him, told reporters.
"The death was due to cerebral vascular accident or stroke, worsening cardiac and renal failure and pneumonia," Dr Manu Varma said.
Justice Iyer, born in a conservative Tamil Brahmin family in Palakad in Kerala, was attracted to communism and had served as a minister in the first democratically-elected Communist government of the world under the late EMS Namboodiripad in the state.
During his tenure as law minister, land reforms were introduced in the s. As a S