Final preparations for the impeachment of Justice Soumitra Sen of Calcutta High Court on charges of corruption got underway with Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan setting up a three-member judicial team to draft the chargesheet against him.
An attempt to force the names of misbehaving judges into the open will be launched tomorrow in a groundbreaking freedom of information case.
The Chief Justice of Delhi, Justice A. P. Shah, in his capacity as the Competent Authority at the Delhi High Court is to be complimented for modifying the Right to Information rules at the High Court to be in tune with the RTI Act, 2005. However, the notification pertaining to the modifications should be placed under the relevant field, Delhi High Court Rules, on the Court’s website for public information.
While recommending the impeachment of Calcutta HC judge Soumitra Sen on the basis of an in-house probe, CJI K G Balakrishnan admitted in his letter to the Prime Minister last year that the affected judge had made a "detailed representation" seeking reconsideration of the decision.
The law ministry has found nothing wrong with the credentials of four lawyers whose competency and conduct Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had questioned after their names were recommended for appointment as judges of Calcutta High Court.
ON APRIL 17, 2004, when the Allahabad High Court (AHC) put out an advertisement for 79 clerical vacancies, 23- year-old DK Pandey thought himself as good a candidate as any for a government job with a pay packet in the Rs 3,050 to Rs 4,590-plus-allowances range.
Five minutes per case. That’s what Delhi HC estimates it has in a day for its backlog. We apply the formula to all 21 HCs (the figures in bold indicate the number of pending cases and the figures following the respective cities are the number of years it would take at the rate of Delhi HC)
A Parliamentary panel has suggested the constitution of a National Judicial Service Commission with powers to revise judges’ salaries according to the service conditions and accountability on the lines of the practice in advanced countries.
Judges of the Supreme Court are not opposed to making known their assets provided the declarations are made as per the procedure laid down by the law, its Registrar told the Delhi High Court.
Judges of the Supreme Court are not opposed to making known their assets provided the declarations are made as per the procedure laid down by the law, its Registrar told the Delhi High Court.