Public opinion on judicial appointments and transfers in India is polarized, with many praising educational content but expressing notable concerns about the collegium system, government interference, and the need for reforms to enhance transparency and independence. While there is a desire for better governance, significant distrust exists regarding the existing frameworks and perceived political influence over the judiciary.

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once again

Broad-Path-7417

blazing_cyborg

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As always bois and gurls......80/80🔥🔥🗿🗿

champagneproblems_08

TheLeCHONKER

Technical-Web7427

epicstun2240

Stupidserena

sigma_sigmaboy

It somewhat looks really close to our history syllabus but im in class 8(if we ignore the cold war)

LORD_AKAANIKE

Character-Court-1886

suckcunts

youlikemenutz

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transformers12345679

Unhappy-Landscape325

MrCoolBoy001

iamthebesthoe

ravyaaa_

The causes also need a one or two liner explanation ,for when you are writing long answers or else you will lose marks

Casual_Scroller_00

Marasitamer12

Foxmoves_

HolidaySwimming4660

2hreya3adam

Wasn't there was some push for the reforms few years ago but SC struck it down calling it 'unconsititutional' 

Yeah courts are kind of a family business with judges and all mostly connected to each other  so definitely privilege and connections exist

ClinkzBlazewood

You just be careful on the morning walks.

Reintroducing the NJAC. The SC/ HC in this country are  inherently undemocratic institutions, i.e they are not elected by the people, either directly or indirectly. A couple of people on this thread have pointed out how the judiciary needs to be 'independent'. However, 'independent from political pressure' is different from 'independent from the people'. As presently constituted, the higher judiciary is independent from the latter. Additionally, the higher judiciary not being political appointees is a flawed argument because all the other branches of the government are political appointees. The American model of the SC might not be perfect but at least in its decisions it represents the social mores of the American society. That is simply no way of ensuring that in India because the judges themselves have no pressure on them to do so.

Someone mentioned how the PM isn't elected- but that is simply not true- you might not elect the "PM", but the PM has to be an MP- and he doesn't act independently of the cabinet- so there are considerable checks to his decision-making. There are no such checks and balances against the Higher Judiciary. 

Anyone on the fence about the whole NJAC issue and the "transparency" vs "accountability" debate should definitely check out Nassim Taleb's works on why certain institutions are destined to rot and decay because of their self-regulatory nature.

chandra_1_ashish

We need to ask ourselves a simple question- Do we live in a Democracy? If the answer is yes, then how is it that an institution that is in charge of "judicial review" of enacted laws, is a self-regulating institution. As presently constituted, the incoming judges of the SC/ HC are selected by a "collegium" of SC judges. Now ask yourself a fundamental question- Why? Why is it that the CJI needs to have a say in it at all? Is there any other public institution in this country where the outgoing members select the incoming batch. If yes, then can we really call ourselves a democracy? It's because we aren't really a democracy, but a hybrid aristocracy-where a certain unelected nobility decides what's good for the rest of us.

Judicial reforms at lower courts is prioritised because almost 90% of 5 crore cases are pending in the lower (District) courts. The constitutional article 312 proposes creation of All India Judicial Service (like IAS, IPS). But the Rajya Sabha has not taken any steps to create the service. 

Yes, at the higher levels the appointments should be more transparent. There are demanda from civil societies that minutes of the Collegium meetings should be published along with the metrix which are taken into account for appointments at HCs and SC.

SC does acts arbitrarily as we saw in Chief Justice Harrasment case, where CJI himself presided over his own case. That was complete violation of Principles of Natural Justice enacted by the SC itself! But the SC has also given some of the landmark judgements which has protected our Fundamental Rights, freedom, liberty and checked party politics (state emergency cases).

Whats-In_Name

Monopoly aur family culture khatam ho jaaega na bhai fir

Some clever asshole milord invented the sentence" basic structure of constitution" and from then onwards all those judges got 2 dicks and any law to reform them is struck down as it doesn't confirm to basic structure. Even  Ambedkar ji would be wondering now. 
Lack of accountability is another thing they enjoy. Look at how milord D Y C ordered center to divert all oxygen to Delhi without basic assessment. Later in audit it was known that Delhi showed many times more than the required amount of oxygen. Lot of other states suffered and a lot died . But that asshole is going to become CJI in 22. These lot of communist cock sucking shitheads should be removed

Govt should appoint sufficient number of judges in vacant posts. That is causing delay

CritFin

A small excerpt from a Judgement by Justice PN Bhagwati in case of S.P. Gupta v. President of India

"The public does not know how judges are selected &amp; appointed or transferred &amp; whether any, and if so, what principles &amp; norms govern this process. The exercise of the power of appointment &amp; transfer remains a scared ritual whose mystery is confined only to a handful of high priests. The mystique of this process is kept secret &amp; confidential between just a few individuals, not more than 2 or 4 as the case may be and the possibility can't therefore be ruled out that howsoever highly placed may be these individuals, the process may on occasions result in the making of wrong appointments &amp; transfers &amp; may also at times, though fortunately very rare, lend itself to nepotism, political..as well as personal &amp; even trade - off"

The Judgement was given at a time when Collegium System wasn't there, but hold true even today in an more agressive manner.

For everyone questioning the Independence of Judiciary, you need to have an Independent Judiciary not a Secret Judiciary, otherwise what's the point of it being "न्याय की देवी"

Some good facts to know:
1. While to even get a job of a sweeper in a government institution a candidate has to mug up everything be it history, geography, current affairs etc. But to run this country there is no qualifications needed. And irony is that most of the ministers aren't well educated and have criminal cases against them. Biggest examples are our PM and home minister.

2. Once a minister is elected he gets pension for his lifetime. If he is elected for two different ministries then will get pension from both till his lifetime. In contrast government has denied all pensions to government employees. (New ones)

3. While government can raid houses of anyone in this country for tax frauds and all but no one can raid house of a minister. One minister said once in parliament that they should have power to raid minister too but everyone rejected and shouted as if he did a crime.

4. While government talking of making india world class nation but they themselves can't even conduct a simple exam without getting it leaked. 

5. If you will see the tax collection graph of previous years there is constant rise in tax collection and will keep this trend. Today, the effective maximum tax that an indian pay is 43 percent, while the services we getting are same. Dont even have good roads leave alone other developments.

6. Government jobs keep reducing every year and there is mass unemployment. In contrast we have maximum young population today and when china was at similar situation they invested heavily in human resource and became second super power.

What do you think solutions of these problems can be?

Judiciary is meant to be independent, you can't have the government interfering with the judiciary otherwise it becomes just like bureaucracy where the ruling party appoints whoever they like who'll tow the line.

DwightKSchruute

More Judges to fastrack cases that have been stalled for a long time

I feel the system is fairly stable the way it is, except the following things. 

1. Judges have a retirement age. This means they have to kowtow to politicians to get some appointment in some special committee or RS nomination after their retirement.

2. The throughput of the courts needs to increase 

3. The HC and SC seriously needs to stop infringing on the functioning of the executive. For e.g. the madras HC just quashed the 120 kmph speed limit on highways and reduced it to 80. What authority they have to do this?

SnooSeagulls9348

Judiciary should be independent of the executive that's the only way to keep check on the ruling govt. Past few judges were mere puppets of the govt which led to some really absurd rationale presented by the apex court. As a matter to keep check on the judiciary we have the constitution of India to look over it

4Pot_smoke20

50CalEmir

antifa-_-

sudhanshu_sharma

i_hate_cucumber_

There's so much more stuff:

* Passing of the Aadhaar act as a Money bill to bypass Rajya Sabha vote

* [Taking advantage of their majority to bypass parliamentary panels when making new laws](https://scroll.in/article/932186/explainer-how-the-governments-bypassing-of-parliamentary-panels-makes-new-laws-less-robust)

* [Interfering with appointment and transfer of judges in the Supreme Court](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DcltISVybI)

* [Weakening of judicial independence](https://www.newsclick.in/Strong-Executive-Weak-Courts) and [rise of the "executive court"](https://indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2019/11/17/a-little-brief-authority-chief-justice-ranjan-gogoi-and-the-rise-of-the-executive-court/)

* Multiple instances of using CBI, ED and IT dept for political vendetta

* [A compromised Election Commission](https://thewire.in/government/elections-2019-election-commission)

* Passing of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019 and subsequent misuses of it.

* Unchecked use of Section 144 and Internet shutdowns to suppress dissent

cncrndctzn2

I would add more, but you’ve reached the perfect number.

NewIndianthrowaway

I see the connotation to '69. But I think you should include the rape and brutal of the kid named Asifa (Kathua) where BJP folks came out in the support of the accused.
Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/story/bjp-leader-who-attended-rally-supporting-kathua-rape-accused-promoted-as-minister-1223416-2018-04-30#aoh=15787938303370&amp;referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp;amp_tf=From%20%251%24s

Mach-iavelli

You missed - Link everything to Aadhar fiasco

Karna1394

aribanerji

2016: the year of mass-blindings in Kashmir + 145 days of internet shutdown (mobile) etc etc

Edit: Also butchering Kashmiri in his speech, after hiring people to attend his rally. Won’t forgive him for that.

madeinkashmir

Good work OP! You should keep updating this list, preferably with each item pointing to a news article that summarizes the issue. This could become a nice resource to point a Bhakt towards, they tend to overlook BJP's faults 🙂

Sir, you missed one important point.

BJP is looting our RBI and as a result the current CRB ( calamity risk buffer ) is set below 5%. For reference; the CRB of a economically stable and developed country like Canada is 6%.

And if India's heading to a massive economic recession then, sadly, there's no coming back.

Adarsh6102000

I’m glad that people are finally catching on to Modi’s hypocrisy!

kakakukubaba

-	no press conferences
-	 silence on the events of rape, violence, riots, etc
-	 supporting communal Yogi, Pragya and others

SpeedOfSound343

Have you included...
Vyapam scam? And related suspicious deaths

Justice Loya

swamyrara

I know few more reasons but I don't want to disturb this magical number.

naveenpun

72 - Claims that he only sleeps for 3 hours a day (Canadian Kumar Interview)

gunner_3

You forgot to mention love jihad (2014) and cow jihad (2019)

Did you target the number 69 or did the count turn out to be 69 at the end when you finished without checking?

He is also a pradhansevak of Mukesh Ambani.

#  It ain't much, but it's honest work

I hope you add links to all the points you've mentioned which act as fact-check for further reference.

vinreddti

Modiji, get this straight. The army is not yours. It is not even of any other political party. It is ours. Of the people. None of my friends in the army and my dad, an ex IAF officer, support your divisive politics. He is just of the view that you should allocate them the budget they need and leave em for good unless you want to tell them to start a war. BJP politicising the army by saying that they are giving them due respect has only lowered the military's status and reputation.

heterosexualcucumber

Gauri Lankesh,Kerala-somalia comment,Blocking aid from UAE during floods 2018,Providing just 500crore for the same.Not giving funds for 2019 floods and simultaneously asking for 200+cr payment for the rice provided during the floods.

Big thanks to you. This should get viral on whatsapp

tiddu

Schezwan98

DXRoss

sukeshpabolu

Neutrinoisafermion

Mrunpredictable

Everything going on in delhi..
From hate speeches to transfer of judge who wanted police to file an fir against the ministers
Making delhi another Gujarat

disislame1234

aadharshbalak

He is the Prime FakeR. He fakes almost everthing.example - [Yoga With Modi](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS_FdMUqwujoADaE-KiGsTw)

lemmelearnlol

dlisfyn

Bojackartless

Meddling in the politics of Nepal (A strategic ally) and pushed them towards China.

Xeng14

1. I always remember this incident which proves modi has attacked on media. It was sham for democracy when a media was told to have black screen for a day. 

Also the incident where DD news anchor was scraped and rajyasabha tv stopped broadcasting when voices against amit shah were raised

2. This is the first prime minister who has never held a single press conference. 

https://scroll.in/article/889026/resignations-of-two-journalists-at-abp-news-cause-disquiet-in-newsrooms-and-far-beyond

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/93z2yd/thread_attack_on_independent_media_in_india/

https://thewire.in/media/abhisar-sharma-abp-news-punya-prasun-bajpai-amit-shah-media-censorship

DickForLosers

His entire news nation interview, Where he was caught doing scripted interview, He also mentioned that he sent email with an image  attachment  and most importantly Radar modi.

Great post. When we will people wake up?

I hope its not too late.

crazer_trader

Some of those points are arguments for arguments sake.

The BJP has been far better than any other political party in cleaning out corruption so far and mallya etc defrauded the banks under a previous government. The modi government has actually exerted immense pressure to bring them back but they aren't magicians

caraka_pan

The termination processes of these so-called democracy pillar holders, civil servants and heroes of constitutional principles has been made so lengthy and complex that it seems next to impossible to hold them accountable for literally anything they do!

They need to be held accountable at all costs if we are to become a developed nation, itne gire huye log hain ki bheekh maangte firte h in the form of bribe and fir common people se hi hekdi dikhate hain! Where's the judge Rita kaushik? Any case against her? No! She's still in service, right?

FYI: India is the only country in the world that follows this process of collegium.

Allahabad High Court eager to welcome the corrupt judge.  The judge is likely to put his skills to use more efficiently in UP.

find_a_rare_uuid

Meri life mein yeh teesra Delhi HC judge hai Jo corruption scandal mein aa kar allahabad HC transfer hua hai🤣

Now something related to Samay raina will cover the media or some other controversy from their list, and people will forget that justice is for sale too! Or they already know and accepted

Such-Emu-1455

We Are FUCKED!! I feel there is no hope for people like us here. Wait till you see their children walking around as if they own the high court, or for hells sake the entire city.

vigya16

A corrupt judge being merely transferred as 'punishment' shows how fucked up my country is. Absolutely no hope left.

Left_Membership2780

It's high time to name and shame such corrupts. Indian Chuidicary

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OldSchoolMausi

Kuch nhi hoga transfer ke alwa -Removal of judges ( high court and above ) is practically impossible.
It's need inhouse investigation 
Then CJI recommend removal to Parliament , where 2/3 majority is needed in both house

It's impeachment not removal


Almost impossible hai

Mission_Object1807

Why is CJI acting so surprised? Murder of judiciary has been happening for a while now.

Next time someone complains about mob justice, cite this shit.

\&gt; would erode trust in judiciary

chithiyon ko batao, no one trusts the judiciary.

gyaani_guy

He got a promotion... Much better bribes to be made in UP.

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