at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, where he taught a course on Law and the Child. He was appointed Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) on 14 January 2010. Under his chairmanship, a national plan of action was taken up to be executed by all State Legal Services Authorities, a calendar for activities was put in place, and provision of legal services to transgender people was taken up as a new project of NALSA. Judgements During his tenure as a Supreme Court judge, Kabir delivered several critical judgements, particularly regarding human rights and election laws. One of the most important cases he presided over was that of Sandhya Manoj Wankhede, of Amravati district, in 2011. In this case, the Supreme Court bench, composed of Justices Kabir and Cyriac Joseph, ruled that female relatives of a husband can also be booked under the Domestic Violence Act. Kabir also presided over the contempt case against prominent advocate and (now disbanded) Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan after he alleged that half of the most recent 16 CJIs had been corrupt. On 8 May 2012, the Supreme Court bench composed of Altamas Kabir and Ranjana Desai ordered the government to end the Haj subsidy by 2022. On 19 October 2012, Kabir granted bail to journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi, arrested for alleged involvement in an Israeli embassy vehicle blast in which an Israeli diplomat's wife was injured. Pronouncing the order, Kabir said, "We are unable to appreciate the procedure adopted by the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, which the High Court has endorsed. And we are of the view that the appellant (Kazmi) acquired the right for grant of statutory bail on 17 July 2012, when his custody was held to be illegal by the additional sessions judge." Allegations In 2013, Kabir, then serving as CJI, became embroiled in a controversy involving his sister, lawyer Shukla Kabir Sinha, and Gujarat High Court Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya. In a letter to the president, the prime minister, and CJI Kabir, Bhattacharya claimed that, as chief justice and head of the Supreme Court collegium, Kabir had blocked Bhattacharya's elevation to the Supreme Court. Bhattacharya alleged that the reason was his opposition to the appointment of Shukla Kabir Sinha to the bench of the Calcutta High Court while he was a member of that court's collegium in 2010. On 18 July 2013, in a