BHUBANESWAR: Former Chief Justice of India Gopal Ballav Patnaik was today conferred Honorary Doctorate in Law by Utkal University during the
annual day function of University Law College here. On the occasion, Governor
and Chancellor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare called upon the law students
to develop passion for justice and adopt impartiality to become successful in the noble profession of law. He also reminisced his days in the Government Law College, Mumbai, and his long association with some of the leading legal brains of the country such as Nani Palkhivala, Fali S Nariman, Anil Diwan and others. He said that he studied law solely for the reasons as independence of the profession and that all the founding fathers of modern India from Mahatma
Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad and Sardar Patel were lawyers.
Justice GB Patnaik underlined the importance of an independent judiciary for
survival of democracy. Thus the system needs good lawyers for upholding justice delivery mechanisms. Vice-Chancellor Binayak Rath and Principal.
