Senior Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan, convenor, Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR), has created a flutter in India's top judicial echelons by charging an Andhra Pradesh High Court judge of allegedly committing atrocities against members of the Dalit community. Bhushan has made the allegation
Subject : Justice Chelameswar and Transparency in the judiciary. 5 September, 2016 Justice T.S. Thakur, Chief Justice of India. Dear Sir, I am writing this letter in the spirit of seeking an improvement in the working of the judiciary, and not as an exercise of criticism. India has
September 2, 2016 The only way to break the executive-judiciary impasse is to make public future correspondence on the Memorandum of Procedure. This will be a precursor to infusing transparency in judicial appointments The Chief Justice of India’s (CJI) high-octane laments about vacancies caused due to the
The CJI’s anguish came on a day when the Rajya Sabha was informed by the government that 478 vacancies are yet to be filled up in 24 high courts, where nearly 39 lakh cases are pending. With the government sticking to its stand on most of
The Supreme Court of India today disposed of the petitions relating to the Delhi Judicial Service Exam of 2014. The top court also issued a number of directions to improve the existing examination system. The matter was heard by a Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Rohinton Fali