A Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India said1 that the State should secure the proper operation of legal system and proper opportunity to get justice, which shall be its Fundamental Obligation as per Article 39A of Constitution of India.
A serious view is emerging in the government that the Constitution be amended before the Judges (Inquiry) Bill, currently with the standing committee of Parliament, is enacted.
The basic structure theory plays a useful part in our constitutional jurisprudence. But was there truly a judicial formulation by the Supreme Court of India of the basic structure doctrine in the Kesavananda Bharati case? An insider's unravelling of a fascinating story.
A day after The Pioneer reported the flourishing practice by the relatives of some Gujarat High Court judges, the upreme Court Bar Association on Thursday took a serious note of the issue.
Following the controversy triggered by the verbal duel between the two judges of the Gujarat High Court, the local bar council passed a resolution on January 23 seeking transfer of all judges whose relatives practised in the same court.