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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