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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ByAdminNew 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.
ByAdminNew 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.
ByAdminThe 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.
ByAdminNEW 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.
ByAdminThe 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.
ByAdmin40 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.
ByAdminA Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India said1 that the State should secure the proper operation of legal system and proper opportunity to get justice, which shall be its Fundamental Obligation as per Article 39A of Constitution of India.
ByAdminA serious view is emerging in the government that the Constitution be amended before the Judges (Inquiry) Bill, currently with the standing committee of Parliament, is enacted.
ByAdminThe basic structure theory plays a useful part in our constitutional jurisprudence. But was there truly a judicial formulation by the Supreme Court of India of the basic structure doctrine in the Kesavananda Bharati case? An insider's unravelling of a fascinating story.
ByAdminA day after The Pioneer reported the flourishing practice by the relatives of some Gujarat High Court judges, the upreme Court Bar Association on Thursday took a serious note of the issue.
ByAdminFollowing the controversy triggered by the verbal duel between the two judges of the Gujarat High Court, the local bar council passed a resolution on January 23 seeking transfer of all judges whose relatives practised in the same court.
ByAdminMessage from Justice V.R.Krishna Iyer
ByAdminBackground note in Hindi
ByAdminWhile the corporate media often lionises the judicial system as the only working wing of the State and projects it as the only institution which stands in the way of a government controlled by criminals, the vast majority of the country do not see the judicial system as capable of providing any modicum of justice to them.
ByAdminThe mandate to bring together peoples’ organisations was to ensure a more accountable judiciary, which can be accessed by poor.
ByAdminThe judicial system of the country, far from being an instrument for protecting the rights of the weak and oppressed, has become an instrument of harassment of the common people of the country.
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