8 would have been much easier to answer and give a verdict; but since this question has a long and chequered history, the answer should not be a short verdict containing only the core questions that have opinion of this raised in this Court. The appeal were surfacing on been many occasions in our country but due to uncertainty and instability in our national life, no definitive answers have been given yet. The question which involves one of the fundamental debates common to any democratic polity is: if the removal mechanism of the Judges of the Supreme Court is given upon the Parliament, whether, the independence of the Judiciary will be affected and/or hampered. The first ever modern democracy in the history, the U.S. also went through this similar debate and it took hundreds of years to refine a sound politico-judicial culture which gives stability in exercise of state power. Even after 220 years of the foundation of their Republic, the debate is not over yet. But for the U.S., this unfinished debate does not mean incompleteness or chaos, rather every

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