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Chief justice Deepak Misra_ Can technology bridge the transparency and trust deficit in India's supreme court_ — Quartz.pdf
Quartz
(2018)
Abstract
India’s supreme court is a beleaguered house. Months after four judges pleaded their anguish against chief justice Dipak Misra, the feud has only turned more bitter. The court has since endlessly wrangled in public. Judges have berated one another, resorted to innuendos, and conferred through the press. It’s an indignity, a descent into pettiness, that makes one wonder: Why has it come to this? Will it end? How?
A suite of issues is boiling the pot: Demand for an investigation into the death of trial judge Brijgopal Loya (now harshly rebuffed by the court), the Narendra Modi government stonewalling high appointments and, above all, the method of allocating cases in the supreme court. This latter concern has invited intense heat.
Within a span of six months, the court twice issued rulings affirming the chief justice’s untamed discretion to assign matters. But naysayers persist; they want reforms. Another petition is up for hearing. Will anything change?
Keywords
- Dipak Misra,
- Chief Justice of India,
- Supreme Court,
- case assignment,
- bench allocation,
- corruption,
- collegium,
- India
Disciplines
- Law,
- Constitutional Law and
- Courts
Publication Date
April 22, 2018
Citation Information
Shubhankar Dam. "Chief justice Deepak Misra_ Can technology bridge the transparency and trust deficit in India's supreme court_ — Quartz.pdf" Quartz (2018) p. 1 - 8 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/shubhankar_dam/61/