Over 20 retired judges from the Supreme Court and High Courts have written to the Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud conveying their “shared concern” about the escalating attempts to undermine the judiciary through “tactics of misinformation” and public disparagement.
The letter follows a recent missive by 600 lawyers voicing the same concerns about a “particular vested interest group” pressurising the judiciary, influencing judicial process, and defaming the courts on the basis of frivolous logic and stale political agendas.
“This behaviour, we observe, is particularly pronounced in the cases and causes of social, economic and political significance, including the cases involving certain individuals, wherein the lines between advocacy and manoeuvring are blurred to the detriment of judicial independence,” the retired judges said, drawing their insight from their years on the Bench.
