Well-known legal rights organization, Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR), has said that Justice KM Joseph’s non-elevation to Supreme Court judge is linked with his “bold decision striking down the imposition of President’s rule by the Centre in Uttrakhand…
CAMPAIGN FOR JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND REFORMS 6/6 basement Jangpura B, Delhi – 110014 judicialreforms.org Patrons: Justice P.B.Sawant, Justice H.Suresh, Shri Shanti Bhushan,, Prof. B.B.Pande,, Dr. Bhaskar Rao, Ms. Arundhati Roy, Shri Pradip Prabhu, Prof Babu Mathew, Dr. Baba Adhav, Ms.…
Justice V R Krishna Iyer was, in one word, incredible. For a Brahmin with an urban upbringing to become a lawyer and then a judge was nothing unusual. And he became that. But the route that he took to that…
The Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) has issued a scathing indictment on the continuing standoff between the government and the judiciary on judicial appointments, raising pertinent questions on institutional integrity and independence. Condemning the Centre’s move of returning…
Sitting high court judge, CS Karnan has written to the Supreme Court and will appear next month to argue against the collegium’s mandate to transfer him. According to The Indian Express, the judge was asked by the high court to…
Fundamental rights are no gifts of the state, the Constitution only confirms their existence. Our freedom fighters and members of the Constituent Assembly who drafted free India’s Constitution attached great importance to fundamental rights. They did not subscribe to the…
The Supreme Court today dismissed the application filed by Common Cause seeking an independent court-monitored investigation into the Birla/Sahara payoff documents recovered by the Income Tax Department. The background was as follows: In October 2013 the CBI/IT Dept…
The Supreme Court of India recently released its annual report on the Indian Judiciary for 2015-16. Running into nearly three hundred pages, the report reveals some interesting facts and figures with respect to the Supreme Court, the twenty four high courts and…
The year 2016 has been marked by the hostile interface between the judiciary and the government like never before over delay in judicial appointments. The genesis of this often overt hostility between the two constitutional branches of governance in the…
The Narendra Modi government has sent back at least 13 names recommended a second time by the Supreme Court collegium for appointment as Allahabad High Court judges, setting the stage for another round of confrontation between the executive and judiciary…