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International Court of Justice (ICJ) judge Justice Dalveer Bhandari says former law minister Late HR Bharadwaj single handedly deserves credit for dignified living conditions of judges of Supreme Court & High Courts in India. His work is unparalleled, says Justice Bhandari 1/n

2/n Justice Dalveer Bhandari says every evening spent with late HR Bharadwaj was a class in education. He reveals Bharadwaj was fondly known as "bhai sahib" in legal cricles. J. Bhandari was speaking at the inauguration of an e-library on Bharadwaj's first death anniversary

3/n In presence of former Supreme Court judges - Justices Dalveer Bhandari, Madan Lokur and Ashok Mathur & many former HCs judges - Justice Kailash Gambhir says judges benefited only during Bharadwaj's tenure as law minister though many eminent lawyers were also law ministers..

4/n Many former SC & HCs judges present at the virtual inauguration of an e-library in the memory of late HR Bharadwaj say delays in judicial appointments and unnecessary friction between judiciary and executive were unheard of during his long tenure as law minister.

5/n Former Supreme Court judge Justice Ashok Mathur says late Bharadwaj strongly persuaded former Prime Ministers late Rajiv Gandhi, late Narasimha Rao and Dr Manmohan Singh to improve financial & living conditions of judges despite strong objections from ministers & bureaucrats

6/n Senior advocate Arun Bharadwaj (late Bharadwaj's son) announces his decision to write the memoirs of his father, which will include 2G legal opinion controversy & on which UP politician's insistence - the UPA leadership decided to drop his father as a minister in 2009

n/n In what promises to be an explosive memoir, Arun says he will reveal who threatened his father on the RAX from Rajiv Gandhi PMO & how Dr Manmohan Singh persuaded HR Bharadwaj to attend 2009 UPA swearing-in despite having been excluded from the cabinet.