{"id":194540,"date":"2018-03-29T19:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=194540"},"modified":"2018-03-29T19:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:15:32","slug":"justice-chelameswar-in-his-letter-to-cji-calls-for-full-court-discussion-on-executive-interference-in-judicial-matters-read-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2018\/03\/29\/justice-chelameswar-in-his-letter-to-cji-calls-for-full-court-discussion-on-executive-interference-in-judicial-matters-read-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Chelameswar, in his letter to CJI, calls for Full Court discussion on executive interference in judicial matters [Read Letter]"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the never-ending controversies and never seen before moves by and against the judges of the top-most Court of the nation, it is safe to say that Indian Judiciary is in deep crisis. In January this year, the senior most judge of the Supreme Court of India, Justice J. Chelameswar, along with Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Kurian Jospeh, held a\u00a0press conference<\/a>\u00a0over the controversy relating to assignment of cases by the CJI.<\/p>\n

Addressing the nation through the press conference, Justice Chelameswar said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWith no pleasure we are compelled take the decision to call a press conference. The administration of the Supreme Court is not in order & many things which are less than desirable have happened in last few months.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The judges had also\u00a0released the letter<\/a>\u00a0that they had addressed to the CJI on the said issue.\u00a0On the principle of Chief Justice being the\u00a0\u2018master of the roster\u2019,\u00a0<\/strong>the letter stated:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe convention of recognizing the privilege of the Chief Justice to form the roster and assign cases to different members\/benches of the Court is a convention devised for a disciplined and efficient transaction of the business of the Court but not a recognition of any superior authority, legal or factual of the Chief Justice over his colleagues.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earlier<\/a>, the Court number 1 of the Supreme Court witnessed a high voltage drama when a 7-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, Justice Dipak Misra, assembled for reviewing the 2-judge bench order calling for constitution of a Constitution Bench of the first five judges of the Supreme Court to hear the matter wherein it was alleged that attempts were made to bribe some Supreme Court Judges in the matters relating to Medical admission scam. The bench of J Chelameswar and S. Abdul Nazeer, JJ had given the said order on\u00a009.11.2017 .<\/a><\/p>\n

In the latest turn of events, Justice Chelameswar has yet again written a letter to the CJI, highlighting the ‘Executive encroachment’ in the judicial matters. In the letter dated 21.03.2018, Justice Chelameswar has said:<\/p>\n

“We, the judges of the Supreme Court of India, are being accused of ceding our independence and our institutional integrity to the Executive\u2019s incremental encroachment. The Executive is always impatient, and brooks no disobedience even of the judiciary if it can. Attempts were always made to treat the Chief Justices as the Departmental Heads in the Secretariat. So much for our \u201cindependence and preeminence\u201d as a distinct State organ.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The latest letter that is doing the rounds, Justice Chelameswar has highlighted\u00a0the issue of ‘executive bidding’ by Justice Dinesh Maheswari, the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court for the elevation of\u00a0Krishna Bhat, a District & Sessions Judge. He said:<\/p>\n

“We only have to look forward to the time, which may not be far-off if not already here, when the executive directly communicates with the High Courts about the pending cases and what orders to be passed. We can be happy that much of our burden is taken away. And an Honourable Chief Justice like Dinesh Maheswari may perhaps be ever willing to do the executive bidding, because good relations with the other Branches is a proclaimed constitutional objective.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Considering the seriousness of the issue, Justice Chelameswar said:<\/p>\n

“I am of the opinion that this matter is now ripe for the consideration of the Full Court on the judicial side, if this institution really is to be any more relevant in the scheme of the Constitution.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Below is the full text of the letter:<\/h4>\n

To<\/em><\/p>\n

Hon\u2019ble Mr. Justice Dipak Misra<\/em><\/p>\n

Chief Justice of India<\/em><\/p>\n

Lord Bingham in his book \u2018The Rule of Law\u2019 said that \u201cthere are countries in the world where all judicial decisions find favour with the powers that be, but they are probably not places where any of us would wish to live\u201d. Let us also not live where Bingham loathed to live.<\/em><\/p>\n

We, the judges of the Supreme Court of India, are being accused of ceding our independence and our institutional integrity to the Executive\u2019s incremental encroachment. The Executive is always impatient, and brooks no disobedience even of the judiciary if it can. Attempts were always made to treat the Chief Justices as the Departmental Heads in the Secretariat. So much for our \u201cindependence and preeminence\u201d as a distinct State organ.<\/em><\/p>\n

Someone from Bangalore has already beaten us in the race to the bottom. The Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court has been more than willing to do the Executive bidding, behind our back.<\/em><\/p>\n

I read with dismay and disbelief the \u201cconfidential report\u201d sent to the Hon\u2019ble Chief Justice by Shri Dinesh Maheswari, the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court. To begin with, it was unasked for. Second, it is uncalled for. The confidential report blatantly records the impropriety of the executive directly contacting the High Court to reassess a collegium recommendation of the Supreme Court.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is a moot proposition that any Principal & Sessions Judge is the administrative head of the district he works in. He has to exercise his supervisory, and \u201cdisciplinary\u201d power over all other judicial officers in that district.<\/em><\/p>\n

From the letter of the Hon\u2019ble Chief Justice, Karnataka, the following facts can be culled out. In 2014, when Shri Krishna Bhat, a District & Sessions Judge, was working in Belagavi district, he sent to the High Court a report concerning the (mis)conduct of Ms. M.S. Shashikala, a\u00a0<\/em>Judicial Magistrate of First-Class. The High Court registered a vigilance case (HVC) No.93\/2014 but did not choose to act upon the same till 18.02.2016. Till that time, Krishna Bhatt had faced no allegations from any quarter, including his subordinates.<\/em><\/p>\n

With Shri Krishna Bhatt\u2019s elevation around the corner, Ms. M.S. Shashikala chose to complain against him.<\/em><\/p>\n

If such retaliatory complaints are entertained, no career conscious judge would ever risk disciplining his subordinates.<\/em><\/p>\n

From the material available on record, it appears that Ms. M.S. Shashikala offered her resignation in April 2016 and withdrew it in June 2016. The then Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court was asked to provide the details and background of Ms. Shashikala\u2019s resignation. The then Chief Justice, after inquiring into the issue, sent two confidential reports dated 14.10.2016 and 14.11.2016. He asserted that the allegations levelled against Shri P Krishna Bhatt were incorrect and concocted. He has found that Ms. M.S. Shashikala has made her allegations only to malign Shri P Krishna Bhatt.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the meanwhile, acting on the recommendations of the Karnataka High Court collegium, we recommended his name, along with five others from the service category, for elevation. At that time we were aware of the allegations but we consciously and rightly disbelieved them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Surprisingly, the Government selectively withheld his elevation and accepted that of the remaining five others\u2019, though all the five are juniors to Shri Krishna Bhatt.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now comes what is unpredictable and unthinkable. If the government had any reservations or misgivings about Shri Krishna Bhatt\u2019s nomination, it could have sent back the recommendation for our reconsideration \u2014 a well-established though long forgotten practice. Instead, it sat tight on the file. In other words, our recommendation still retained its validity and legitimacy.<\/em><\/p>\n

For sometime, our unhappy experience has been that the Government\u2019s accepting our recommendations is an exception and sitting on them is the norm. \u201cInconvenient\u201d but able judges or judges to be are being bypassed through this route.<\/em><\/p>\n

I do not think any of us disputes that elevating a person to be a judge of a High Court is a constitutional concern involving two authorities: the Supreme Court and the executive. The role of High Court ceases with its recommendation. Any correspondence, clarificatory or otherwise, has to be between these two authorities. To my mind, I could recollect no instance from the past of the executive bypassing the Supreme Court, more particularly while its recommendations are pending, and asking the High Court, as if it were an interdepartmental matter, to look into the allegations already falsified and conclusively rejected by us. Asking the High Court to reevaluate our recommendation in this matter has to be deemed improper and contumacious.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court informs us that he had received a communication from the Ministry of law and justice \u201cto look into the issue.\u201d The Chief Justice, establishing himself to be more loyal than the King, acts on it, convenes a meeting of the Administrative Committee, and decides to reinvestigate the issue, thus burying the previous Chief Justice\u2019s findings on the same issue, given at our asking. He has been gracious enough to inform us, at least now.<\/em><\/p>\n

A long time ago, an idealist, without knowing the ways of the world, has said this: the accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Na\u00efve as it may sound now, that was James Madison in the Federalist Papers No.47.<\/em><\/p>\n

We only have to look forward to the time, which may not be far-off if not already here, when the executive directly communicates with the High Courts about the pending cases and what orders to be passed. We can be happy that much of our burden is taken away. And an Honourable Chief Justice like Dinesh Maheswari may perhaps be ever willing to do the executive bidding, because good relations with the other Branches is a proclaimed constitutional objective.<\/em><\/p>\n

We cannot deny Robert H. Jackson\u2019s assertion in United States v. Wunderlich that men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. Let us also not forget that the bonhomie between the Judiciary and the Government in any State sounds the death knell to Democracy. We both are mutual watchdogs, so to say, not mutual admirers, much less constitutional cohorts.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am of the opinion that this matter is now ripe for the consideration of the Full Court on the judicial side, if this institution really is to be any more relevant in the scheme of the Constitution.<\/em><\/p>\n

Since we are a precedent oriented institution, I may be pardoned for quoting a precedent to the Master of Roster that it was exactly a similar letter written by the then Union Law Minister which sparked up a judicial debate in S.P. Gupta<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

With Regards,<\/em><\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,<\/em><\/p>\n

(J. Chelameswar)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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