New Delhi: The crisis within the Judiciary is far from over. After the statement of Justice Jasti Chelameswar, the second senior-most Judge of the Supreme Court (SC), as to how Benches are “preferred” or “managed” within the SC, Justice Kurian Jospeh has spoken against the “increasing interference of the government”Continue Reading
The 1995 judgment defined Hindutva or Hinduism as a “way of life” and nothing to do with “narrow fundamentalist Hindu religious bigotry”.Continue Reading
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur appeared to be under a lot of pressure on Sunday – so much so that he broke down in front of PM Narendra Modi. Justice Thakur was most vexed about India’s overworked judiciary and bemoaned that the common man’s faith inContinue Reading
New Delhi: A 1987 report of the law commission had drawn a blueprint of the manpower required in the judiciary. At that time, the strength of the judiciary was 7,675 judges, or 10.5 judges per million people. The judge-population ratio (sanctioned strength) has since increased to 17 judges per millionContinue Reading