Judicial Humility

New Delhi (Gurpreet Singh): Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Karol retired from the apex court bench on Saturday, remarking during his farewell address that judges are not gods and that the act of judging demands deep humility and the ability to look beyond formal legal pleadings to see the human being behind every litigant. Highlighting the ethical dimensions of the judicial role, Justice Karol noted that the Constitution obligates judges not merely to apply the law correctly, but to apply it justly. On his final working day, Justice Karol shared a ceremonial bench with Chief Justice of India Surya Kant,…