Judiciary: 60 judicial officers transferred, 12 promoted

In a major reshuffling in the lower judiciary in Delhi, 60 judges have been transferred and 12 have promoted from Delhi subordinate judiciary to the Delhi Higher Judicial Services (DHJS).The notification issued by the Registrar General of the Delhi High Court has been sent to the Acting Chief Justice of the high court and to  [ Read More ]

Independency Of Judiciary

INTRODUCTION: The question was been asked by the framers of our Indian constitution that what would be the status of your judicial System would be and this was the answer given Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the following words: “There can be no difference of opinion in the House that our judiciary must be both independent  [ Read More ]

Judiciary must appreciate practical difficulties: Khurshid

Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday said the judiciary must appreciate the “pragmatic and practical difficulties” of running the political system since it also comes from the same system. Khurshid said: “(The) pragmatic and practical difficulties of running the political system (are) not alien to the judiciary because ultimately judiciary also comes from the same  [ Read More ]

LGBT rights interpreted by Judiciary “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender”

How Indian Judiciary is interpreted the social stigma in regards to LGBT rights?   Introduction: It would be problematic to fix a gigantic moment of change from invisibility to visibility in the context of queer citizenship in India. From last few years it could be follow in film industry when the producer introduced new social  [ Read More ]

More accountability for judiciary recommended

As eminent jurists here recommended more accountability for the judiciary, Home Minister P. Chidambaram Saturday said a clean judiciary was the right of every Indian, adding that judicial activism was right so long it concerned human rights and was not on the wrong side of the constitution. Speaking on ‘What Ails the Indian Judiciary’ at  [ Read More ]

Judiciary not super legislature: Chief justice

The judiciary should not try to act as a super legislature, Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia said Saturday. He also asked the political leadership to resist from giving protection to corrupt judges. Kapadia said this while delivering the fifth M.C. Setalvad memorial lecture on the ‘Canons of judicial ethics’ here. The chief justice also  [ Read More ]

Judiciary should not target actors blatantly: Arshad Warsi

The judiciary should not target actors “blatantly”, says Arshad Warsi, one of the very few in Bollywood to react to a court convicting Shiney Ahuja for raping his maid and sentencing him to seven years in jail. Shiney was held guilty of raping his maid in 2009 by a fast track court on Wednesday. “Murderers,  [ Read More ]

Aberrations in judiciary reflection of society: Moily

The few aberrations in an otherwise highly efficient judiciary are only a reflection of society and these have to be removed, Union Minister of Law and Justice M. Veerappa Moily said on Sunday. Speaking at a regional review meeting of the implementation of the 13th finance commission recommendations on improving justice delivery and other matters  [ Read More ]

Don’t disparage lower courts, apex court tells judiciary

The Supreme Court has said that the appellate courts should exercise utmost restraint before making adverse observation against the judges of the subordinate judiciary. The apex court said that besides affecting their career, such ‘disparaging’ remarks lower their esteem in public view. The vacation bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice G.S. Singhvi and  [ Read More ]