The Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) has issued a scathing indictment on the continuing standoff between the government and the judiciary on judicial appointments, raising pertinent questions on institutional integrity and independence. Condemning the Centre’s move of returning names of 13 recommended judges for
Sitting high court judge, CS Karnan has written to the Supreme Court and will appear next month to argue against the collegium's mandate to transfer him. According to The Indian Express, the judge was asked by the high court to vacate is official bungalow in
Fundamental rights are no gifts of the state, the Constitution only confirms their existence. Our freedom fighters and members of the Constituent Assembly who drafted free India’s Constitution attached great importance to fundamental rights. They did not subscribe to the fallacy that fundamental rights are a
The Supreme Court today dismissed the application filed by Common Cause seeking an independent court-monitored investigation into the Birla/Sahara payoff documents recovered by the Income Tax Department. The background was as follows: In October 2013 the CBI/IT Dept conducted simultaneous raids on the premises of Aditya Birla
The Supreme Court of India recently released its annual report on the Indian Judiciary for 2015-16. Running into nearly three hundred pages, the report reveals some interesting facts and figures with respect to the Supreme Court, the twenty four high courts and the subordinate courts under them. In