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=== Gujarat Shrine Restoration === | === Gujarat Shrine Restoration === | ||
He was a part of the bench with Justice [[Dipak Misra]], which held that destruction of places of worship by a dominant group is not a violation of the Article 21, Right to Life.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 March 2023 |title=Gujarat Shrine Restoration |url=https://www.scobserver.in/cases/state-of-gujarat-v-islamic-relief-committee-of-gujarat-shrine-restoration-case-background/ |website=SC Observer}}</ref> | He was a part of the bench with Justice [[Dipak Misra]], which held that destruction of places of worship by a dominant group is not a violation of the Article 21, Right to Life.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 March 2023 |title=Gujarat Shrine Restoration |url=https://www.scobserver.in/cases/state-of-gujarat-v-islamic-relief-committee-of-gujarat-shrine-restoration-case-background/ |website=SC Observer}}</ref> | ||
== Notable dissents == | |||
=== Corruption and Bail === | |||
In a 2:1 judgment dated 16 August 2017, Justice Pant penned the dissenting opinion in Rakesh Kumar Paul vs State of Assam passed by the Supreme Court over a case of alleged corruption.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 August 2017 |title=Rakesh Kumar Paul vs State of Assam |url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/194334432/ |website=Indian Kanoon}}</ref> | |||
{{Quote|text="In the present case, the allegations do not disclose merely an economic offence but it shows a transgression of the constitutional rights of the victims of the crime. The Chairman of the APSC has the responsibility on behalf of the State for enforcement of the Fundamental Rights of equality in matters of public employment enshrined under Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India. If the allegations are found to be true, then the offence cannot merely be considered as an economic offence, but a fraud on the Constitution itself by the persons appointed to enforce it."|author=Prafulla Chandra Pant|title=}} | |||
==Works== | ==Works== | ||