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.
Prashant Bhushan exposes the insufficiency of the report and earlier bill at seminar organised by Bar Association of India, at Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, on 15th November 2011.
Prashant Bhushan delivered an over hour long invitation lecture at Roosevelt University, co-hosted by PFL -People For Loksatta along with IAC,IDC and AID Chicago.
CJAR reveals the myriad weaknesses in bill and its attendant parliamentary report which cannot be left undealt in public.
Tehelka recognises and clarifies promptly in the wake of debunking
Prashant Bhushan wrote to President of India to request for making a reference to the Supreme Court for inquiry into the misbehaviour of Justice K. G. Balakrishnan, Chairman, National Human Rights Commission and ex-Chief Justice of India under Sec 5(1) of Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. Similar letter was sent to Prime Minister of India
Justice V R Krishna Iyer declares that the time has come for a democratic revolt against the judiciary and for the appointment of a performance commission for judges.
Prashant Bhushan aired his lateral views different from panellists invited in the seminar organised Bar Association of India, at Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi, on 5th March 2011.
Senior Advocate and former Union Law Minister Shanti Bhushan spoke on 9th Dec 2010, in support of judges being brought under ambit of the new draft bill being circulated and discussed in civil society organisations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-NdDhPVnng
Justice(s) Katju and Misra clarified vide order; after IA was filed for expungement before Supreme Court, about remarks made regarding Allahabad High court, wherein "some" were castigated for corruption, vide case related judgement
Mythili Bhusnurmath opines that it is high time that institutional safeguards are put in place to eliminate curruption in judiciary.
CJAR issues a press statement welcoming the reconstitution of the Dinakaran Inquiry Committee and calling for an independent full time judicial performance commission.
Justice V R Krishna Iyer in his article in Hindu reacts to the application filed by Senior Advocate Mr Shanti Bhushan in the Contempt of Court proceedings against his son Mr Prashant Bhushan and recomends that a Grand Jury needs to be constituted to look into the phenomenon of corruption in apex court.
Senior Advocate Mr Shanti Bhushan filed an application for being impleaded as Respondents in the Contempt of Court proceedings against his son Mr Prashant Bhushan. In his application, he has stated "[O]ut of these [16 previous Chief Justices], eight were definitely corrupt, six were definitely honest and about the remaining two, a definite opinion cannot be expressed." He has also placed on record a list of corrupt judges in a sealed cover.
The Controversy began when Prashant gave an interview in Tehalka and expressed that out of the last 16 to 17 Chief Justices, half have been corrupt. Mr Harish Salve, who was acting as Amicus Curiae in one of the mattersin Supreme Court filed a Contempt of Court Petition in the Supreme Court. Court issued notice to Prashant and Prashant filed his first reply to this. In this reply, he gave some instances of corrupt practices of some of the previous Chief Justices. Prashant filed second affidavit to place on record some facts, material and evidence which he was aware of when he made the statement about the former Chief Justices, so as to dispel any impression that his statements were baseless or made with reckless disregard to the truth. However, Prashant reiterates that in his statement about half of the last 16-17 Chief Justices being corrupt, he "certainly did not intend to paint the entire judiciary or the entire Supreme Court with the same brush".
Justice Krishna Iyer writes in Hindu about Politics and Judiciary. He believes that Judges are a third instrumentality of the state and are governed by the politics of the Constitution
In the wake of Justice KG Balakrishnan retiring as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Manoj Mitta provides a scathing critique of some trends especially highlighted in his recent justicing career
Marking the retirement of Justice A.P. Shah as Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and recognizing his judicial legacy characterized by his consistent sympathy for the rights of the poor, the weak and the marginalized, an umbrella of 15 human rights organizations, people’s movements and academic/cultural institutions organised a Panel address on the issue of Sensitizing the Judiciary to the Rights of the Poor – The Judicial Legacy of Justice A.P. Shah on the 6th of April 2010 at the Nehru Memorial Library, Teen Murti House. The Seminar was addressed by an eminent panel of lawyers, social activists and academicians and attended by over 200 activists, lawyers, academicians, students and concerned citizens
