Supreme Court

Chief Justice Surya Kant to Form Three-Judge Bench to Reconsider Aravali Hill Judgement

The Supreme Court at this point has not yet decided on the final makeup of the three judge panel and the time frame of hearing. The trends in the case and the environment law scholars and legal critics are likely to monitor the case with interest as they believe that the case might not only affect the case of Aravali, but also the environmental jurisprudence in India.

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Sacred Spaces, Secular Power, and a Sitting Judge: The Justice G.R. Swaminathan Impeachment Debate

What makes this matter worse is the fact that this motion is rooted less in clear cases of judicial bias but more on the fact that the State Government was dissatisfied with the judicial outcome which touched upon sensitive religious and political terrain. If legislation started acting on every dissatisfaction it has it will set a wrong precedent ad risks judiciary being subordinated to shifting winds of politics.