NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday restored a government rule requiring apex court and high court judges to keep the home and external affairs ministries in the loop when travelling abroad, even on private visits.
The Supreme Court today asked the registrar of Chhattishgarh High Court to allow an NGO, which alleged irregularities in the 2008 civil judges exam there, to inspect answer sheets of 60 successful candidates.
'Loyal' bureaucrats are being appointed as information commissioners at the Centre and State transparency panels, the Supreme Court observed on Thursday, saying it's order for judicial members in the commissions would make them independent and free from government influence.
Votaries of transparency law told the Supreme Court that its direction for appointing people from judicial background as members of the Central and state information commissions was "legally not correct" and would lead to "frustrating" the whole objective of the RTI Act.
A total of 65,703 cases are pending in the Supreme Court till November this year, out of which 6,445 cases have been pending for more than five years, Law and Justice Minister Ashwani Kumar told the Rajya Sabha today.
The appointment of a High Court judge made 12 years ago was reopened by the Supreme Court on Friday after a PIL claimed that a criminal case pending against the judge was overlooked by the selection committee of Supreme Court judges which recommended his appointment.
On August 18, 2012, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speaking at the 150th year celebrations of the Bombay High Court, said the government was in favour of raising the age of retirement of High Court judges. Presently, Supreme Court judges retire at 65 and High Court judges at 62.
A commission to select judges will be an improvement on the collegium only if its members are of the highest standing
Wide consultation, rather than the closed-door deliberations of the collegium, is what the Supreme Court and the High Courts need
Tax avoidance through artificial devices — holding companies, subsidiaries, treaty shopping and selling valuable properties indirectly by entering into a maze of framework agreements — has become a very lucrative industry today.