Hyderabad: Justice B Sudershan Reddy, INDIA bloc’s nominee for vice chairman and a former Supreme Court docket choose, is finest remembered for his landmark 2011 judgment which declared the controversial Salwa Judum militia in Chhattisgarh as unconstitutional. The militia was later disbanded.His ruling, rooted within the safety of elementary rights, underscored that state-sponsored vigilantism couldn’t exchange constitutional policing. In Nandini Sundar versus state of Chhattisgarh, the bench led by Justice Reddy held that arming tribal youth as particular cops beneath Salwa Judum was unlawful and unconstitutional. The court docket ordered quick disbanding of the militia, restoration of arms, and cessation of central funding, stressing that the state should handle the foundation causes of unrest as a substitute of decreasing it to a law-and-order drawback. Born on July 8, 1946, in Akula Mylaram village of Kandur mandal in Telangana’s Rangareddy district to an agricultural household, Justice Reddy studied in Hyderabad and earned his LLB from Osmania College in 1971.He started his profession practising writ and civil issues within the Andhra Pradesh excessive court docket, later serving as govt pleader (1988–90), further standing counsel for the Centre, and standing counsel for Osmania College. Appointed as a everlasting choose of the AP excessive court docket in 1995, Justice Reddy rose to grow to be Chief Justice of the Guwahati excessive court docket in 2005 and was elevated to the Supreme Court docket in Jan 2007. He retired on July 8, 2011. Justice Reddy’s judicial document additionally mirrored his sturdy stance towards fraudulent transactions and benami properties. In a notable 1997 AP excessive court docket ruling, he held that fraud nullifies finality, ruling that limitation durations don’t defend benami dealings as soon as found. This precept bolstered judicial intolerance of concealment and misuse of property legal guidelines, his judgement acknowledged.Past the bench, Justice Reddy continues to contribute to the authorized fraternity as a trustee of the Worldwide Arbitration and Mediation Centre in Hyderabad.