Indian Chief Justice

Published January 19, 2018

THE Chief Justice of India (CJI) should resign. Even if he puts condition that the other four should also resign, that’s okay. But to assume that it is a husband-wife quarrel is tantamount to belittling the crisis. A crisis in the most important pillar out of four pillars of democracy or for that matter any such important institution cannot be termed a crisis of wedlock.

Unfortunately we are not interested in knowing the facts of the case but are looking it superficially. The supreme court is not a fiefdom of anybody. It is good that the issue has surfaced. It is up to Indian intellectuals and thinkers to either ignore it as a marital discord or take it as an institutional warning sign. Neither the Chief Justice of India nor the ‘dirty four’ are school kids to be rusticated for fighting in the class.

Let us not think from “Oh, it reflects badly on the Modi government, let’s bury this” point of view. As for the government, it should show its concern.

Kumar
Chennai

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LET the Chief Justice and four dissenting judges quit.

Certainly, the four Supreme Court judges have conducted themselves in a deplorable manner by accusing the chief justice in public. They have not only disgraced themselves but the entire Indian judiciary by showing a high level of indiscipline.

Obviously, the chief justice of India could not conduct himself in a way to have on his colleagues with him in his decisions.

Having done so much of damage the Chief Justice and the four dissenting judges must resign immediately as people will have no confidence in these five judges.

N.S.Venkataraman
Mumbai

Published in Dawn, January 19th, 2018

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