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
Sober reflection will lead to the conclusion that the predominant role may belong to the Chief Justice of India (and the collegium), but there must be checks and balances and the Executive also must have a role. Imagine that we are citizens of a nation that
The CBI on Thursday arrested senior civil judge Rachna Tiwari Lakhanpal on bribery charges. She was remanded in 14-day judicial custody and will be produced before the court on 13th October. A CBI team caught the senior civil judge of the Tis Hazari Court, Delhi, while
Sharing his experience in the court room, Ramon Magsaysay award winner Bezwada Wilson said judiciary is as inaccessible to the marginalised as any government system. “This prevents the percolation of justice to the needy,” he added. For the common man, courts are all about winning or losing
This representation is to bring to your kind notice, the various allegations against Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy, sitting Judge of the Andra Pradesh High Court, over the past many years, that amount to abuse of office, particularly nepotism and atrocities against the Dalit community. Some