180 impeachment motions against Justice Sen and Dinakaran in India Campaign came for in for Judicial severe criticism Accountability from and the Reforms (CJAR). The resignations of justices Sen and Dinakaran have exposed the inadequacies of the present system to make Judges answerable for their omissions and commissions because of the inherent politicization of the parliamentary mechanism. The fact that tainted Judges can simply evade parliamentary scrutiny and censure by resigning is a telling commentary on the lacunae in the legal and constitutional provisions in regard to impeachment. One of the very recent incidents of disciplinary proceeding is against Justice Karnan, a Judge of the Calcutta High Court. Justice Karnan’s shenanigans have exposed many weaknesses in the higher judiciary and point to much more than the acts of just one man. This Judge had called a press conference to accuse a fellow High Court Judge of caste discrimination on the ground that the Judge who sat next to him

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