Don’t corrode judiciary, says apex court
December 8th, 2011 - 11:19 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday said that any attempt to corrode or erode the judiciary would weaken a pillar of the state that is still strong.
“If the institution is corroded or eroded in any way, it will not be good,” said the special apex court bench of Justice Altamas Kabir, Justice Cyriac Joseph and Justice H.L. Dattu while hearing contempt proceedings against counsel Prashant Bhushan.
Bhushan in facing the proceedings for his interview to a magazine carried in its Sep 5, 2009, issue. In the interview, he alleged that Justice S.H. Kapadia held shares in the Sterlite Industires and “there is a law against judges hearing cases where there is a conflict of interest, but they just bypass it and you can’t complain because that would be contempt”.
Hearing the arguments on Bhushan’s plea for referring to the constitution bench the question whether a bonafide opinion on corruption in judiciary would amount to contempt, the court said: “Whatever people may say, but this is the fact that the judiciary has stood the pulls and pressures till date”.
Justice Kabir said that if this institution is “corroded or eroded in any way, it will weaken one pillar that is very strong even today”.
“I have no axe to grind with any one. I am for the institution and institution alone,” he said.
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