Judges at India's Supreme Court have agreed to make public details about their financial assets following an intense public debate. Analyst Manoj Mitta says a lot more needs to be done to make India's judiciary transparent.
Conflict of interest legislation ensures that when government officials decide issues of public policy, their personal interests do not cloud their judgment -- that their decisions will be based solely on what is best for the public as a whole. Conflict of interest laws achieve
Anyone familiar with India would be aware of the remarkable paradoxes of the country characterized by obscene wealth in the hands of a few “billionaires” among whom are 4 of the ten richest men in the world, existing side by side with appalling poverty where
If the Indian judicature is not to degenerate into a jejune institutional caricature, democracy must assert itself, and it must cease to be a simulacrum of Westminster judges with judicial wigs, jackets and robed apparel. The truth about the robed brethren must be an open
When one examines the hopes and fears that one has from judiciary, it is necessary to define the role that one expects the judiciary to play in the country.