The Lok Sabha on Thursday gave its approval for a three-fold salary hike to judges but not before members expressed concern over the incidence of corruption in the judiciary, rising pendency of cases and long vacations that the courts continued to take.

Fifty-eight members of the Rajya Sabha, from across the political spectrum, submitted a motion to Chairman Hamid Ansari on Friday for the removal of Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court on grounds of misconduct.

With the Centre yet to act on Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan’s recommendation for removal of Calcutta high court judge Soumitra Sen, 58 Rajya Sabha members came together on Friday to seek his impeachment on grounds of financial misconduct.

Setting aside their political affiliations, leaders of different parties met Rajya Sabha Chairman Mohammad Hamid Ansari today and submitted a petition for the impeachment of Justice Soumitra Sen of the Kolkata High Court.

If the Indian judicature is not to degenerate into a jejune institutional caricature, democracy must assert itself, and it must cease to be a simulacrum of Westminster judges with judicial wigs, jackets and robed apparel.