For the first time, the government has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to provide details on the status of its probe into the serious allegations of corruption against former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Y.K. Sabharwal.

Thankfully, nothing’s been confirmed. And frankly, the last time I put my finger out in the breeze, there wasn’t much of a flutter from the story, let alone a flurry of protests outside Jantar Mantar — barring, that is, a strong front-page piece in the

The government will seek a national consensus on bringing about judicial reforms, Union Law and Justice Minister M. Veerappa Moily said on Thursday. It would take a couple of months to set the ball rolling.

In Republic, Plato describes the perfect society, with a guardian class protecting the City. But who, it is asked, will “guard the guards?” That is the very question that those calling for judicial accountability ask. India’s higher judiciary, by most accounts the world’s most powerful,

The bill drafted by the law ministry for disclosure of assets by judges has little to do with judicial accountability.