Well done, quietly done, CJI Khanna
Justice Hans Raj Khanna may have been unintentionally prescient when he titled his autobiography Neither Roses Nor Thorns . Four decades later, this epithet aptly describes the tenure of his nephew Sanjiv Khanna as CJI, which ended yesterday. When he took over, his predecessor DY Chandrachud had just demitted office in a blaze of publicity. Some lauded Chandrachud for his openness. Many decried him for what appeared to be unrelenting attention-seeking.
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