Judicial Accountability

CJI Surya Kant has said allegations against Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma will be examined through due process, but has offered no explanation for why the Rajasthan Acting Chief Justice remains in office weeks after Justice Sandeep Mehta’s letters were sent.

Hours after the Bar Council of India withdrew its directions against NALSAR’s 2026 batch, the Supreme Court took up the matter anyway as the CJI backed the students’ right to protest even though the protest was against him.

The Judges Inquiry Committee’s Report tabled in Lok Sabha holds that unaccounted currency was found in a storeroom under Justice Varma’s control, that evidence was tampered with before it could be sealed, and that his explanations were evasive – findings that echo the Supreme Court’s In-House Committee’s conclusions before Varma resigned in April.

Three convocations and a memorial lecture involving CJI Surya Kant have been postponed, declined, or contested in as many weeks, as student anger over his remarks on police brutality against protestors continues to build.

The Collegium’s latest recommendations, which do not spell out the reasoning, seek to appoint chief justices across the High Courts of Patna, Calcutta, Bombay, Punjab & Haryana, and possibly, if Justice Sunita Agarwal is elevated to the Supreme Court, the Gujarat High Court as well.

After a controversial elevation superseding three judges in the Nepalese Supreme Court under the Balen Shah regime, Nepal’s Chief Justice Manoj Sharma is on his first official visit to India, as courts across South Asia reel through varying forms of executive pressures.

In an eleven-page order, the Court held the claims to be “ex-facie false, malicious and derogatory” and directed the Union Government to issue a notification under the IT Act requiring all intermediaries to remove the specified URLs within 24 hours.

The petition seeks takedown of YouTube videos, social media posts, and online articles falsely claiming seventy-five judges and Union ministers participated in the Second International Bar and Bench Badminton Championship in London.