In a boost to judicial accountability, the Central Information Commission (CIC) on Tuesday rejected the Supreme Court’s claim that the Chief Justice of India was beyond the purview of RTI.

Less than a fortnight after the Supreme Court recommended the transfer of Justice R Mishra in connection with the Uttar Pradesh provident fund scam, he will be sworn in as a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

Chief Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrishnan appealed to the members of legal fraternity to cooperate in betterment of the judicial system in the country.

THE DELHI High Court on Monday stayed an order of the Central Information Commission ( CIC), asking the Supreme Court's registry to give information to an RTI applicant on whether apex court judges have declared their assets to the Chief Justice of India ( CJI).

PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh obviously feels deeply about corruption in government and especially in the judiciary. He spoke on it publicly twice within five months; on both occasions, in the presence of the Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice K.G. Balakrishnan. On April 19, he said: “Corruption is another challenge that we face both in the government and the judiciary.”

A Supreme Court Bench provided a "law" to protect Judges from criminal prosecution by an assertion of power that did not vest in it.

The number and type of cases the Supreme Court accepts rather than having too few judges causes the backlog of cases.

Address of the Legal and Real Chief Justice of the Pakistan Supreme Court, Mr. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, to the New York City Bar Association

With judiciary reeling under the embarrassment of allegations of corruption facing several of its members, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called for "introspection" on judicial appointments.

The recent disclosure that the Chief Justice of India had recommended the impeachment of a Calcutta High Court judge for misappropriation of funds, along with earlier allegations surrounding the Ghaziabad provident fund case and money delivered at the residence of a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, have highlighted the urgent need for a legal and transparent method for investigating misconduct of judges of superior courts.

UP police has identified 34 sitting judges, including one in the Supreme Court, as among those allegedly involved in the embezzlement of provident funds of class IV employees of Ghaziabad court. This development, which extends the crisis of credibility facing institutions to the judiciary as well, could become the jolt for it to consider whether to persist with the immunity that judges enjoy at present.

After recommending impeachment of Calcutta high court judge Soumitra Sen, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan dropped another bombshell on Tuesday by allowing CBI to question two judges of the Punjab and Haryana HC.

The possibility of an impeachment motion against a Calcutta high court judge, Soumitra Sen, comes close on the heels of a slew of corruption charges against the judiciary.

A Supreme Court bench on Tuesday said it was time to stem the rot that seems to have crept into the judicial system. “The time has come because people have started categorising some judges as very honest despite it being the foremost qualification of any judge. It is the system.

The much respected judiciary is caught on the backfoot. Suddenly, charges and accusations of corruption against judges, always talked in hushed tones in court corridors, are flying thick and fast — all in the open. Weighed down by the gravity and the spread — from Kolkata to Punjab — of the accusations and perturbed by the southward trend of the judicial index in public, the Supreme Court on Tuesday conceded, “The rot has set in.”

Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court will not resign, his lawyer Subhas Bhattacharya said here on Tuesday.

The most crucial attribute of democracy is its rule of law. An independent and impartial judiciary has the responsibility to ensure that authority governs through the rule of law.

If Calcutta High Court judge Soumitra Sen is impeached, it will be an unprecedented event as the previous impeachment of Justice V Ramaswamy in 1991 failed to pass muster in the Lok Sabha as the then Narasimha Rao government failed to take a position on the issue.