Votaries of transparency law told the Supreme Court that its direction for appointing people from judicial background as members of the Central and state information commissions was "legally not correct" and would lead to "frustrating" the whole objective of the RTI Act.
A total of 65,703 cases are pending in the Supreme Court till November this year, out of which 6,445 cases have been pending for more than five years, Law and Justice Minister Ashwani Kumar told the Rajya Sabha today.
The appointment of a High Court judge made 12 years ago was reopened by the Supreme Court on Friday after a PIL claimed that a criminal case pending against the judge was overlooked by the selection committee of Supreme Court judges which recommended his appointment.
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.
NEW DELHI: 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.
NEW DELHI: 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.
CHANDIGARH: 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 two judges have been linked to what has now come to be known as the "cash-in-the-bag" scandal.
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.
New Delhi: A Supreme Court bench on Tuesday said it was time to stem the rot that seems to have crept into the judicial system.
New Delhi: 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.
Kolkata: 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.
NEW DELHI: 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.
NEW DELHI: Unprecedented as it is, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan's recommendation to the government for the removal of Calcutta High Court judge Soumitra Sen has exposed a legal lacuna. For, Judges (Inquiry) Act 1968 does not envisage a contingency where the judiciary approaches the executive for the removal of a judge; the impeachment process provided by it is entirely in the domain of Parliament.
NEW DELHI: The Centre will move an impeachment motion against Calcutta High Court judge Soumitra Sen on a recommendation by Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan seeking his dismissal for corrupt practices which have brought disrepute to the judiciary.
New Delhi, September 7 For only the second time in the history of India’s higher judiciary, the Chief Justice of India has recommended that a judge be removed from “service”.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday posted for hearing in an open court on July 17 a petition seeking a CBI probe into what is called the “Ghaziabad judges scam”.
THE SUPREME on Monday decided to in an two petitions demanding a “thorough and unfettered probe” against 36 judges, alleged to have financially benefited from the multi-crore provident fund .
The supreme court on Monday reached a “unanimous” agreement that the infamous UP provident fund scam, unearthed from a Ghaziabad court recently allegedly involving several sitting and retired judges, needed to be probed thoroughly.
The Chief Justice of India should immediately order a high-level probe by a competent investigative agency to examine the truthfulness of charges against 36 judges, alleged to have financially benefited in the Ghaziabad multi-crore provident fund scam, top jurists of the country have said.
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.