Judicial Independence

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said that law must have the touch of humanity to serve the interests of all people and should always be used with a sensibility to address the roots of problems.

Seeking inclusion of government nominees in the collegium system on appointments to the higher judiciary is tantamount to interfering in Judiciary's independence and hence improper, DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has said.

Efforts to infringe on the freedom of judiciary will not work, former Supreme Court judge Madan Lokur told NDTV today in the backdrop of the judiciary's escalating friction with the government on the subject of judicial appointments.

Ease of justice was equally important as ease of living as India celebrates the 75th year of its independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today as he urged the judiciary to expedite the release of undertrials languishing in various jails.

AMumbai court on Sunday rejected the city police's demand for the custody of independent MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana and remanded the couple in 14-day judicial custody, an official said.

The outgoing chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court, Justice Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi, on Saturday said the government's negative perception about him is a certificate of his judicial independence.

Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) independent witness in the Mumbai cruise raid case Kiran Gosavi has been sent to Judicial custody by a Pune court on Tuesday in a cheating case registered against him at Faraskhana police station.

The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday criticised the erosion of judicial independence, marginalisation of minorities and impunity in Sri Lanka, and urged the UN to ramp up evidence-gathering.

Independent one-member judicial commission to investigate death of Vikas Dubey, UP gangster who was shot dead last week as he tried to escape police custody following a car accident

The independence of Hong Kong's judicial system is under assault from the Communist Party leadership in Beijing, senior judges in the city told Reuters, posing the gravest threat to the rule of law since Britain handed its former colony back to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.

Actress Swara Bhasker has started a signature campaign demanding an independent judicial enquiry into Sunday's violence against the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday alleged that the "horrifying violence unleashed on India's youth by goons" was with the "active abetment of the ruling Modi government" and demanded an independent judicial inquiry into the violence in JNU.

Filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Aparna Sen today said there should be an independent judicial probe into the violence against anti-Citizenship Act protesters in Uttar Pradesh while adding that they don't support any form of vandalism.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered an independent judicial inquiry into the Christchurch mosque attacks, saying she wants to know how a gunman shot dead 50 people on March 15.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting plans to conduct an independent study to gauge the impact of government advertisements on people. It is a move aimed at drawing strategy for judicious use of money for the state publicity works, sources said.

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said that law must have the touch of humanity to serve the interests of all people and should always be used with a sensibility to address the roots of problems.

Seeking inclusion of government nominees in the collegium system on appointments to the higher judiciary is tantamount to interfering in Judiciary's independence and hence improper, DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has said.

Efforts to infringe on the freedom of judiciary will not work, former Supreme Court judge Madan Lokur told NDTV today in the backdrop of the judiciary's escalating friction with the government on the subject of judicial appointments.

Ease of justice was equally important as ease of living as India celebrates the 75th year of its independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today as he urged the judiciary to expedite the release of undertrials languishing in various jails.

AMumbai court on Sunday rejected the city police's demand for the custody of independent MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana and remanded the couple in 14-day judicial custody, an official said.

The outgoing chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court, Justice Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi, on Saturday said the government's negative perception about him is a certificate of his judicial independence.

Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) independent witness in the Mumbai cruise raid case Kiran Gosavi has been sent to Judicial custody by a Pune court on Tuesday in a cheating case registered against him at Faraskhana police station.

The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday criticised the erosion of judicial independence, marginalisation of minorities and impunity in Sri Lanka, and urged the UN to ramp up evidence-gathering.

Independent one-member judicial commission to investigate death of Vikas Dubey, UP gangster who was shot dead last week as he tried to escape police custody following a car accident

The independence of Hong Kong's judicial system is under assault from the Communist Party leadership in Beijing, senior judges in the city told Reuters, posing the gravest threat to the rule of law since Britain handed its former colony back to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.

Actress Swara Bhasker has started a signature campaign demanding an independent judicial enquiry into Sunday's violence against the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday alleged that the "horrifying violence unleashed on India's youth by goons" was with the "active abetment of the ruling Modi government" and demanded an independent judicial inquiry into the violence in JNU.

Filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Aparna Sen today said there should be an independent judicial probe into the violence against anti-Citizenship Act protesters in Uttar Pradesh while adding that they don't support any form of vandalism.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered an independent judicial inquiry into the Christchurch mosque attacks, saying she wants to know how a gunman shot dead 50 people on March 15.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting plans to conduct an independent study to gauge the impact of government advertisements on people. It is a move aimed at drawing strategy for judicious use of money for the state publicity works, sources said.