Justice Chitta Ranjan Dash, who retired as a Calcutta High Court decide on Monday, revealed that he’s a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Speaking at his farewell on the excessive courtroom in entrance of the judges and members of the bar, Justice Dash acknowledged that he was “ready to go back to the organisation” in the event that they referred to as him for any help or work that he was able to doing. “To the distaste of some persons, I must admit here that I was and I am a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),” he added.
Justice Dash was transferred to the Calcutta High Court from the Orissa High Court after serving for greater than 14 years as a excessive courtroom decide. “I owe a lot to the organisation… I am there from my childhood and throughout my youth,” he acknowledged. “I have learnt to be courageous, upright and have an equal view for others and above all, the sense of patriotism and commitment to the work,” he acknowledged.
Justice Dash mentioned that he had distanced himself from the organisation for about 37 years as a result of work he did. “I have never used my membership of the organisation for any advancement of my career because it is against its principles,” he acknowledged. Justice Dash mentioned that he handled everybody equally, whether or not they had been wealthy or poor, communists, BJP, Congress, or TMC (Trinamool Congress).
“All are equal before me, I do not hold any bias for anyone or any particular political philosophy or mechanism,” he mentioned, including that he tried to dispense justice on the rules of empathy and that “law can be bent to do justice, but justice cannot be bent to suit the law”. He mentioned that he was “ready to go back to the organisation” in the event that they referred to as him for help or work that he was able to doing.
“Because I have not done anything wrong in my life, I have the courage to say I belong to the organisation, because that is also not wrong,” he mentioned, including that if he was individual, he couldn’t belong to a nasty organisation.
Justice Chitta Ranjan Dash’s Early Life, Career
Dash was born in Sonepur, Odisha, in 1962. He attended faculty in Ullunda and furthered his schooling in Dhenkanal and Bhubaneswar earlier than graduating in legislation from Cuttack in 1985. He grew to become an advocate in 1986 and was appointed because the state authorities’s extra standing counsel in 1992, a place he held till 1994, in response to the Calcutta High Court’s web site.
In February 1999, he joined the Orissa Superior Judicial Service (Senior Branch) as a direct recruit. In October 2009, he was elevated as an extra decide of the Orissa High Court. Dash joined the Calcutta High Court as a decide on switch on June 20, 2022.
