SC to study context of charges against judges

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – Polity & Governance; Judiciary

Context: 

Supreme Court to launch a detailed examination into the circumstances under which a person can make public allegations of corruption against the judiciary.

Earlier Judgements

SC’s 1995 judgment in C Ravichandran Iyer case where the court had laid down that if members of the bar had any material about “misconduct” or “bad conduct” of a judge, they should meet the high court chief justice concerned or the Chief Justice of India to apprise them of the material against the judge.

The apex court had said they should wait for a reasonable period of time to allow the administrative head of the HC or the SC to take appropriate action.

1992 Judgement -Justice J S Verma in S Ramaswami case

But in none of these two cases, the apex court had the occasion to examine whether an advocate could go ahead and make allegations against a sitting judge without first submitting the evidence backing the charges to the HC chief justice or the CJI.

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