Chief Justice Gavai delivered the keynote address at the 11th Dr. L.M. Singhvi Memorial Lecture on ‘Human Dignity as the Soul of the Constitution: Judicial Reflections in the 21st Century’. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla; Member of Parliament and senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi; and Vice-Chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University C. Raj Kumar were present on the dais and spoke on the occasion. Former and serving judges, parliamentarians and senior advocates were part of the audience. The CJI said the court has intervened to declare human dignity as a “Constitutional value that remains inviolable, even within the confines of incarceration”. The Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai on Wednesday (September 3, 2025) described human dignity as the “soul of the Constitution” which sources and binds together core values like personal liberty, freedom to choose, equality and fraternity.

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