New Delhi: In an action that could open a Pandora’s box, the Supreme Court on Monday sought data from the Centre to scrutinise whether the Chief Justices of India have followed legal procedure in appointment of additional judges to various high courts since 1999 and their confirmation.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will examine whether consultations by the Chief Justice of India with other judges in the collegium had been disregarded in the appointment of Ashok Kumar as a permanent Judge of the Madras High Court.
That this Writ Petition is being filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India in public interest seeking appropriate declarations and issuance of writ of quowarranto or any other writ or direction by this Hon’ble Court for quashing the appointment of Justice S Ashok Kumar i.e Respondent No. 2 as a Judge of the Madras High Court.
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New Delhi: Much as it’s desirable to find ever new ways of empowering citizens, law minister H R Bharadwaj seems to have gone overboard in introducing a Bill that equates a single citizen, however inadvertently, with 50 MPs from Rajya Sabha or 100 from Lok Sabha.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday blamed journalists for bringing the entire judiciary to disrepute by doing a sting operation in 2004 in a Gujarat trial court, which on their fictitious complaint issued arrest warrants against the President and the Chief Justice of India.
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought an unconditional apology from a private TV channel reporter who conducted a sting operation and obtained bailable warrants from an Ahmedabad court against the them President, Chief Justice of India, a Supreme Court Judge and a senior advocate in 2004.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is learnt to have asked law minister H R Bharadwaj not to desist from giving the executive's inputs on judicial appointments recommended by collegiums — the panels of senior judges of high courts and Supreme Court.
The Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad (ASCI) joined the Centre for Media Studies, Delhi (CMS), which is one of the key constituents of the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR), in organising a one – day seminar on the topic in Hyderabad on 20th June 2007.
40 prominent citizens from different fields of public life have, after a daylong discussions last week, at CMS-ASCI meet, Hyderabad have resolved to bring out the following Recommendations to the attention of the public in particular and to the concerned Constitutional Authorities.