Justice Dinakaran’s name withdrawn from list for SC appointment
By ANI
November 1st, 2009
NEW DELHI - Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Sunday said that the Supreme Court Collegium has withdrawn the name of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran from the list of judges who were to be evaluated for appointment to the apex court.
Not sure if I have rights to point to the following post for further reading: click.. but it gives an extensive account of the case.
I think it is time our judiciary is taken to task.
It was from the movies of yesteryears that I came across “Court martial” and deduced that it was the worst punishment any person serving in the armed forces is given.
Courts martial have the authority to try a wide range of military offences, many of which closely resemble civilian crimes like fraud, theft or perjury.
Indian Army has four kinds of Court Martial - General Court Martial (GCM), District Court Martial (DCM), Summary General Court Martial (SGCM) and Summary Court Martial (SCM). According to the Army act, army courts can try personnel for all kinds of offences except for murder and rape of a civilian, which are primarily tried by a civilian court of law.
Courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court-martial
While reading about Court Martial I do read that it has its own problems too. I also stumbled upon a blog detailing those who are facing court martial and other trials for various reasons.
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Indian Army Courtmartial and Dishonourable discharge: Current List of Officers under a cloud
Anyway, since I am talking about our judiciary I think it is time something similar (or is there one?) is implemented before the entire system collapses. Those in the judiciary themselves are calling for action and hence it is imperative that something is done.
As for declaring assets which I had mentioned in an older post, we do have good news:
Madras HC Judge declares assets
STAFF WRITER 17:15 HRS IST
Chennai, Nov 9 (PTI) Amid a debate over declaration of assets by judges, Justice K Chandru of the Madras High Court declared his assets at the time of being sworn in as a permanent judge today.
Justice Chandru, who was among 14 additional judges to be sworn in as permanent judges, said he was "starting a new convention" of declaring assets at the time of swearing in.
He handed over an envelope, containing details of his assets along with that of his wife and minor daughter, immediately after being sworn in by Chief Justice H L Gokhale.
The court has a strength of 54 judges, including the 14 sworn in today against the sanctioned strength of 60 which includes the Madurai bench.
SC judges declare assets on website
Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN 3 November 2009, 03:20am IST
NEW DELHI: Two months after the Supreme Court, faced with demands and growing pressure from within, resolved to make public the assets and liabilities of its judges, the details were put up on its official website.
The significant step towards transparency was marked by some surprise revelations — one of the judges doesn’t own even a two-wheeler, while another has a Yamaha motorcycle as his sole vehicle. There are details of land, houses, investments in shares and flats as well. ( See Ninan’s cartoon )
What i want to say is ,everyone should be under the law....no matter judge,cm,pm or president
ReplyDelete@ declaring assets .....I think that is a big joke.These guys know the loop holes of IPC properly and most of them will be regestring there assests in the name of there benami's
Though heard about it, but didn't follow...coz last week i was in kerala and were following the bi-election .....very happy about the result :)
Accountability and transparency are very powerful tools in a Democracy. I feel everybody should be accountable and I also support the Right to Information very strongly.
ReplyDeleteEven the defence services should be accountable. Manorama case in the North East is one example of what unlimited power might do to anybody.
Anish: sure everyone must come under the law.. but if even our Judges can be bought / bend then who will dispense justice to the rest of the deserving?
ReplyDeletethe results are good.. only if the winners would do their duty and not let these losers win again :)
IHM: Everyone should be made accountable.. but unfortunately corruption seems to have spread in the judiciary too which is very dangerous... if those who ought to be dispensing justice are themselves corrupt then will there be an end to this malise?