Justice Dr. A. S. Anand, Chief Justice of India delivered the lecture on the occassion of Second Justice J.K. Mathur Memorial Lecture

Justice Dr. A. S. Anand, Chief Justice of India though most appropriate to lecture on the topic of Protection of Human Rights-Role of Judiciary' on the most pious occasion and to perpetuate the memory of Late Justice J.K. Mathur. Justice Dr. A. S. Anand delved on the wide issues of Human Rights and challenges of the new milleninum. He elaborated that human rights are based on man kind increasing demand for a decent civilized life in which the inherent dignity of each human being is well respected and protected. He described human rights "sacrosanct rights" which can not be derogated in any circumstances. He described the universal declaration of human rights as the 'Magna Carta' in the history of human rights

He said the founding fathers of the UN charter aspired and dreamed of a society in which there would be no discrimination between great or small, virtuous or vicious, rich or poor, wise or foolish and their inherent dignity, regardless of birth, status, race, colour, sex, language, religion or political or other opinion.

He stressed that the judicial institutions have a sacrosanct role to play not only for resolving inter-se disputes but also to act as a balancing mechanism between the confliccting pulls and pressures operating in a society. He said the Indian constitution which was adopted soon after the universal declaration of human rights gave wide impetus to the basic fundamental rights. The Indian courts of law whcih itself is a product of the constitution, functions to administer justice according to the law. He highlighted that the judiciary has responded to the hopes and aspiration of the people of this country by securing them social economic and political justice and thereby ensuring them equality and dignity. Justice Dr. A. S. Anand said that the journey of the Indian judiciary from the case of A.K. Gopalan (AIR 1950 SC 27) to Maneka Gandhi (AIR 1978 SC 597) via Bank Nationalisation (AIR SC 564) and Hardhan Saha's (AIR 1974 SC 2154) is itself a very dramatic and a educative journey. The court's through out the Indian jurisprudence history has attempted to mould and shape the law to responde to the society's desire that human rights be effectively protected

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