CJI Thakur says apex court duty to ensure executive stays within ambit; Minister Prasad disagrees on vacancies In the latest sign that the Supreme Court and the Narendra Modi government continue to be at loggerheads over appointments to the higher judiciary, Chief Justice of India (CJI)
Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, Digvijaya Singh, Naresh Agarwal are among those who moved the petition in the Upper House. Sixty-one Rajya Sabha members on Monday moved a petition seeking impeachment proceedings against Andhra Pradesh/Telangana High Court Justice CV Nagarjuna Reddy for allegedly committing atrocities against a
Minister of State for Law PP Chaudhary on Friday told the Rajya Sabha that the major reasons for referring back 43 recommendees to the Supreme Court Collegium on the appointment of Judges are views of consultee Judges, views of Constitutional Authorities, adverse Intelligence Bureau (IB)
This is a reproduction of the speech delivered by Fali Nariman at the inaugural lecture of the VR Krishna Iyer Memorial Lecture Series – organised by the Sarada-Krishna-Satgamaya Foundation for Law and Justice, Delhi Chapter on Wednesday, October 26, 2016. The title to this lecture is
Only a full-time commission, which is independent of the government and the judiciary, can impart transparency and credibility to the system of appointments to the higher judiciary The Constitution of India gave the higher judiciary another important function in addition to adjudication of disputes: to regulate