The Bar Council of India (BCI) held a felicitation function on Saturday in the national capital to honour the 52nd CJI following his recent appointment.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday disposed of a public interest litigation (PIL) concerning the shortage of judges, stating that the issue impacts all stakeholders in the judicial system.
As senior lawyers and fellow Supreme Court judges were in all praise of his judgeship, the Chief Justice of India, Sanjiv Khanna, on his final day in office, sat on his bench with a sense of relief and gratitude, marking the end of his tenure as the nation's top judge on Tuesday.
Plea moved by Practising lawyer Amit Sahni, stated that as per sanctioned strength, the Delhi High Court should have 60 judges (45 permanent and 15 additional). However, it is currently functioning with only 36 judges, reflecting a vacancy rate of 40%.
In a significant move towards transparency in the judiciary, 21 out of 33 serving judges of the Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice of India, have made their assets public.
In a historic move, the Supreme Court has decided to make public the entire process of appointments to the High Courts and Supreme Court and also uploaded the details on its website.
A panel of judges tasked with conducting an internal inquiry into allegations of cash being discovered at the official residence of Justice Yashwant Varma has submitted its report to Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on May 4.
In a series of posts on Truth Social, Trump criticised former President Joe Biden, left-wing figures, judges, and law enforcement officials, accusing them of enabling crime and weakening the nation's security.
"This is an attack on the entire judicial system, an attack on the Constitution. They have attacked the Chief Justice, and other judges. They are working as a squad for the BJP, which attacks and creates terror in the minds of people. This is an attempt to intimidate the judiciary," Rawat to
"In a democratic nation, the purity of its criminal justice system defines its direction...for a criminal investigation, the initiation has to be by an FIR, First Information Report. It is the law of the land that every cognizable offence is required to be reported to the police, and failure