THE CRITICAL STATE OF THE INDIAN JUDICIARY by Adv. Aires Rodrigues

The indictment by the Supreme Court that there was something very rotten about the Allahabad High Court is yet another slap to the already badly bruised and battered judiciary. The suggestion to transfer the rotten apples elsewhere is no solution to the malaise.

Any judge with the slightest taint should be instantly sent packing. For this there is need for the law to be amended so that the Chief Justice of our country does not remain a helpless spectator to this judicial chaos. The proposed Judicial Accountability Bill with some more added rigors is the need of the hour. There has to be utmost transparency and accountability in the selection of every judge stepping into the temples of justice. There is a need to act with a sense of urgency in this direction to rescue the judiciary before it moves into a irreversible coma.