New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Solicitor-General G.E. Vahanvati to render assistance in a petition seeking a CBI probe into what is called the “Ghaziabad judges’ scam” allegedly involving 26 judges (one apex court judge, seven High Court judges, six retired High Court judges, 10 serving district judges and two retired district judges).
NEW DELHI: Faced with accusations having the potential to unhinge the traditional public perception of the judiciary's clean image, the SC on Monday decided to examine the possible mode of probe into the Rs 23 crore illegal PF withdrawal scam allegedly involving 23 judges, including some from the HCs and one from the apex court.
New Delhi, July 7: The Supreme Court today agreed to take a call on whether to start a judicial probe against 14 current and former apex court and high court judges in a scam running into crores.
Ghaziabad, July 04: In an unprecedented move, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has agreed to subject 12 judges of higher judiciary to interrogation in Rs seven crore Ghaziabad District Courts Treasury Scam.
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice YK Sabharwal was involved in dubious judicial deal-making that earned his sons huge profits. So says a group of engaged and credible citizens led by former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan. And they have evidence to back their claims. Sanjay Dubey pieces together their case
Are CJIs following rules in appointment of judges? SC Seeks Details Of All Appointments Since 1999
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.
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.
A 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.
A 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.
Following 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.
New Delhi: The appointment of Justice S Ashok Kumar as a permanent judge of the Madras High Court has raised eyebrows in legal circles. Justice Kumar had been on probation for almost four years when the outer limit within which a judge is supposed to be confirmed is two years.
The judiciary is the most sublime instrumentality in the country and I have served it for nearly a decade during the best part of my life. This article, written out of reverence for the judicature, has a benign intent meant to arrest its corruption and decline now creeping into its vitals.
NEW DELHI, JAN. 24, 2005 (). The former Chief Justice of India, J.S. Verma, has called for legislation on judicial accountability, based on the resolutions passed by the Supreme Court, to check the erosion of people's trust in the judiciary and to effectively probe charges of judicial corruption.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talking to mediapersons in New Delhi on Sunday before departing for London and New York. The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, and Dr. Singh's Cabinet colleagues are in the background. — PTI
Two diametrically opposite concepts about judges continue to prevail in the Supreme Court while deciding issues about the judiciary itself
The Supreme Court is caught in a contradiction concerning the implementation of its May 7, 1997 full court unanimous decision which set up an internal system for examination of complaints against judges.
NEW DELHI: The file containing a two-month-old proposal by the Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India to transfer Justice P D Dinakaran as chief justice of Sikkim High Court has gathered momentum and a decision from the President is expected soon.
New Delhi, June 02, 2010The judiciary may no longer have monopoly over the appointment of judges of high courts and the Supreme Court.
New Delhi: Opening a new front in the battle for judicial accountability, the Delhi HC has directed the government to take a stand under oath on whether retired Supreme Court judges could give advice to litigants and whether they could also take up arbitration work while they are holding official positions.
Swaraj Thapa Posted online: Tuesday , Mar 16, 2010 at 0808 hrs New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was forced to defer a decision on the draft Judges’ Standards & Accountability Bill after a lively debate in the Union Cabinet and appoint an informal ministerial committee to fine-tune it.
New Delhi : The Supreme Court is set to file an appeal to itself against the January 12 judgment of the Delhi High Court, which said that the office of Chief Justice of India (CJI) falls within the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
AHMEDABAD: Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhyay expressed concern over the future of Gujarat judiciary when hearing the case of termination of ad hoc fasttrack court judges. The high court and the state government discontinued services of 56 judges last November.
POLITICAL adversaries Arun Jaitley and A. B. Bardhan joined hands on Saturday against the Centre’s proposal to make certain
changes with regard to the judiciary.
Former chief justice of India J.S. Verma on Monday asked the Supreme Court not to appeal against the Delhi High Court judgment on implementation of Right to Information Act in the judiciary, since it would amount to "conflict of interest."
Express News Service Posted online: Saturday , Jan 30, 2010 at 0251 hrs Chandigarh : The Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association has unanimously decided to file a protest petition against the closure report filed by the CBI in the ‘cash-at-judge-door’ case.
New Delhi : In a rare outburst, a sitting High Court Judge has alleged that “a vocal and aggressive Executive Government is attempting to regulate and take over Judiciary, even by corrupting the Judiciary.”
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said it will consider on March 25 the plea for taking suo motu cognizance of contempt action against noted advocate Prashant Bhushan who was issued with a notice for allegedly casting aspersions on a senior apex court judge and previous chief justices of India.
Top jurists on Monday opposed the inclusion of senior Supreme Court lawyer P.P. Rao in the three-member probe panel to inquire into the corruption allegations against Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran.
It was no coincidence that three independent inquiries conducted by the police, the CBI and an in-house judges’ panel into the cash-at-judge’s doorstep case had a common conclusion: Justice Nirmal Yadav of the Punjab and Haryana High Court had received an unaccounted cash packet of Rs 15 lakh in mid-August of 2008.
The Chief Justice of India, K.G. Balakrishnan, on Sunday said he was not opposed to the Right to Information (RTI) Act and did not want any exemptions from it. Also, the Supreme Court had not yet decided if it should challenge the Delhi High Court judgment on the issue.
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court judge V.S. Sirpurkar will head a three-member committee that will investigate the grounds for impeachment of Karnataka Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran whose removal from office has been sought jointly by 75 Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha on corruption and land-grabbing charges.
New Delhi, Jan. 16 (PTI): The Chief Justice of India today defended his decision to seek a daily allowance for his wife when the couple recently went on a foreign tour, saying it was being provided for several years.
New Delhi: Attorney general Goolam E Vahanvati today sought to dispel the impression that he was keen to challenge the Delhi High Court judgment on the judges' assets issue, saying that the full Bench itself was of the view that substantial questions of public importance have to be decided by the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has sent a panel of four names — two Supreme Court judges and two High Court Chief Justices — to the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Hamid Ansari, to enable him to select two persons to be in the three-member team to probe the allegations against Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran.
CBI hands tied against judge, Hindustan Times, Jan 8, 2010
Judicial Degeneration must be checked, Hindustan Times, Jan 8, 2010
Karnataka High Court judge D V Shylendra Kumar has fired another salvo at the top judiciary on the efficacy of its "moral authority" in ensuring that erring judges fall in place.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court reserved its verdict on an appeal filed by the Supreme Court challenging its order which had held that office of Chief Justice of India comes within the purview of Right to Information Act and details of judges’ assets should be revealed