Do not put us all in the same category of “corrupt” judges; a judge with integrity need not worry about the judicial accountability bill, Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia said today, issuing an open challenge that if “you” want to dismantle the institution of judiciary, first show how to build a better alternative. The CJI in his speech on the Supreme Court lawns on Law Day said it is...
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Justice Sahai refers Lokayukta issue back to Chief Justice by Manas Dasgupta
-The Hindu Referring the matter back to the acting Chief Justice, Justice V.M. Sahai on Thursday said the split verdict given by the Division Bench on the Gujarat High Court's Appointment of Justice (retired) R.A. Mehta as the State Lokayukta could not be taken up by a third judge till the other two judges gave, in writing, the points of difference in their respective rulings. Accepting the contentions put forth by the...
More »Fresh hearing starts in Gujarat Lokayukta case by Manas Dasgupta
The Gujarat government's petition challenging the unilateral Appointment of Justice R.A. Mehta as the State Lokayukta by Governor Kamala Beniwal has been referred to a third judge for a decision after a split verdict on the issue by the High Court last month. Justice V.M. Sahai on Wednesday began hearing the petition afresh and his judgment on the issue would carry the day since the last two judges gave contradictory views...
More »Order reserved on fresh probe into Ishrat case by Manas Dasgupta
A Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday reserved order till December 1 on the Appointment of an agency for a fresh probe into the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. Since the State government did not press for handing over the case to the State police, the probe was now open to being assigned to the Central Bureau of Investigation, the National Investigation Agency, a reconstituted Special Investigation Team...
More »HC scraps teachers’ selection by Chandrajit Mukherjee
-The Telegraph Jharkhand High Court today scrapped the Appointment of 8,042 government primary schoolteachers, terming the eligibility test conducted by Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) in July to screen candidates arbitrary and illegal. The order of the division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Tatia and Justice P.P. Bhatt means schools will have to wait for teachers longer, as 18,208 posts of teachers (primary and Urdu) have been lying vacant since 2008. A petition was...
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