New Delhi: The appointment of Justice S Ashok Kumar as a permanent judge of the Madras High Court has raised eyebrows in legal circles. Justice Kumar had been on probation for almost four years when the outer limit within which a judge is supposed to
The judiciary is the most sublime instrumentality in the country and I have served it for nearly a decade during the best part of my life. This article, written out of reverence for the judicature, has a benign intent meant to arrest its corruption and
NEW DELHI, JAN. 24, 2005 (). The former Chief Justice of India, J.S. Verma, has called for legislation on judicial accountability, based on the resolutions passed by the Supreme Court, to check the erosion of people's trust in the judiciary and to effectively probe charges
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talking to mediapersons in New Delhi on Sunday before departing for London and New York. The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, and Dr. Singh's Cabinet colleagues are in the background. — PTI
Two diametrically opposite concepts about judges continue to prevail in the Supreme Court while deciding issues about the judiciary itself