Justice Vijendra Jain
Name of Judge: Justice Vijendra Jain Post held at the relevant time: Judge at Delhi High Court Currrent Status: Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court Analysis/Comment/Critique: Justice Vijender Jain had decided a case
- Name of Judge: Justice Vijendra Jain
- Post held at the relevant time: Judge at Delhi High Court
- Currrent Status: Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court
- Analysis/Comment/Critique:
Justice Vijender Jain had decided a case of a litigant Hari Ram who was the father-in-law of Justice Arun Kumar, Former Supreme Court Judge and a close friend of Justice Vijendra Jain. They personally knew well enough to have Hari Ram’s granddaughter married from his official residence. This is in violation of one of the elements of the Code of Conduct or “Restatement of Judicial Values”, adopted by the Full court in 1997 which says that no judge shall hear and decide a case of his relative or friend. Even then Justice Vijendra Jain has been recommended as Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court.A complaint made by Subhash Agarwal against Justice Jain was rejected with no formal reasons given but he was informally told that Justice Jain did not personally know Hari Ram but since Hari Ram was the Father-in-law of Justice Arun Kumar, a close friend of Justice Jain, Justice Jain agreed to lend his residence for the wedding of Hari Ram’s granddaughter.The Committee on Judicial Accountability wrote letters to the President and Prime Minister of India and requested them to get all correspondences made by the Complainant Subhash Agrawal to the Supreme Court in this regard.
- Additional documents in support of critique:
Letters sent by Committee on Judicial Accountability
Letter to President 12.8.06 – pdf (8.03 KB)
Letter to Prime Minister-)pdf (6.24 KB)Sunday Guardian web news article 28.11.10-)pdf (132 KB)[The name of Justice Vijender Jain, even though clearly mentioned in the tape has been withheld in this news item though the conversation itself makes it very clear who the concerned judge is.]
- Details of individual / organisation writing critique:
Name: Committee on Judicial Accountability
Address: 66 Lawyers Chambers, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi