Chief
Justice of US Supreme Court John Marshall
had once said:
"Power of
Judiciary lies not in deciding cases, nor
in Imposing sentences nor in punishing
for contempt, but in the trust, faith and
confidence of the common man".
SC concedes
rot in judiciary
Stresses On Need To Evaluate Efficacy Of
Mechanism To Check Corruption
New Delhi:The much respected judiciary is
caught on the backfoot. Suddenly, charges and
accusations of corruption against judges, always
talked in hushed tones in court corridors, are flying
thick and fast—all in the open.
UP Police Name 34 Judges In PF Scam, Ask SC
For CBI Probe
New Delhi:The Uttar Pradesh police has
identified 34 sitting judges, including one in the
Supreme Court, as among those allegedly involved in
the embezzlement of provident fund money of class IV
employees of the Ghaziabad court. The development
extends the crisis of credibility facing government
institutions to the judiciary as well and could
perhaps jolt it into reconsidering whether to persist
with the immunity that the judges enjoy.
Justice Bilal
Nazki is aiding potential killers ...
By stopping me
from arguing the case further ... has ensured Rs 3 cr
kickbacks every month continue for mumbai Police ...
and by fixing the next the date as 11th March 2009,
has offered the police and their corrupt friends 6
months, to kill me and end the
problem once and for all, with
his blessings...
Earlier in
January 2008, I have delined police protection, after
Justice J N Patel warned the police "Should any
harm befall the petitioner, this court will hold the
Police Commissioner directly responsible"... They have my refusal in
writing.
And I have no
intention of asking for protection from the Rogue
police.
PF scam: SC to
look into judges’ immunity New
Delhi: The SSP of Ghaziabad has blown the lid off Rs
23 crore PF embezzlement by naming 34 sitting judges
as among the alleged ‘beneficiaries’ of the
scam.
The SSP’s
report went on to say, “It has also emerged
during investigation of this case that all the costly
items (split ACs, refrigerators and mobile phones)
which are mentioned in the aforesaid bills were
recovered by Ashutosh Asthana and given to then
district judges, additional district judges etc, who
have been elevated presently as judges in the Supreme
Court and various HCs.’’
Chandigarh: Is it judgment time for judges
everywhere? Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan,
after recommending the impeachment of Calcutta high
court judge Soumitra Sen, dropped another bombshell
on Tuesday by allowing the CBI to question two judges
of the Punjab and Haryana high court who have been
linked to what has now come to be known as the
“cash-in-the-bag’’ scandal.