Sitting Pretty Does the NHRC deserve K.G. Balakrishnan as its chairman?
Jitender Gupta
Under fire ex-CJI K.G. BALAKRISHNAN agrees to disclose assets after weeks of
fobbing off queries. But now a citizens’ initiative wants a CBI probe into his tenure in the SC.
Jitender Gupta
Illustration by Sandeep Adhwaryu
Justice Y.K. Sabharwal greets Justice Balakrishnan after the latter becomes CJI
Narendra Bisht
New Chief Justice of India Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia with Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan after taki...
Justice Kapadia's claim that he did not bring any corrupt Judge to the Supreme Court, has to be qualified by at least one instance where he (or rather the Collegium of which he was a member) almost succeeded.
The power to remove Governors, the Supreme Court Constitution Bench held in 2010, 'cannot be exercised in an arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable manner. The power will have to be exercised in rare and exceptional circumstances'
The power to remove Governors 'cannot be exercised in an arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable manner. The power will have to be exercised in rare and exceptional circumstances'
Letters to the President and Prime Minister of India asking them to make inquiries and initiate steps for removal of Justice Balakrishnan on multiple charges of serious misconduct from the post of chairmanship of the NHRC
Full text of the CJI speech, being projected as controversial in which he said that due regard must be given to the personal autonomy of rape victims "since in some cases the victim may choose to marry the perpetrator or choose to give birth to a chi
"Democratic values such as ‘freedom of speech and expression’, ‘freedom of association’ and the ‘freedom to pursue an occupation, business, profession or trade’ need to be protected in the online domain as well"
'...Instead of offering a considered response to the growth of terrorism, a country may resort to questionable methods such as permitting indefinite detention of terror suspects, the use of coercive interrogation techniques and the denial of the righ