JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN INDIA - WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE?

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  • Raunaq Bagade Law Officer, Marketing Division, Indian Oil Corporation Limited Author

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Indian Judiciary system is the most powerful bench in the world second to USA. Judiciary in India being a democratic country is established with the highest authority by the countrymen and is considered as strongest support of democracy. Judiciary in India has granted Supreme authority by the Legislature managed to non-responsibility of the judiciary to anyone. Judiciary in India enjoys judicial freedom but it is sometimes results to abuse of power and privileges. 

India’s concept of Judicial Responsibility of interrogation is questioned nowadays. The conferences and the discussion from all over the world are considering whether the judiciary can be held answerable for its actions in connection with the search for truth and justice leading to judges’ conformity to a definite position. What the Constitutional provision procures is that “there should be an impartial and independent judicial body to adjudicate upon the matters and to act as the interpreter and guardian of the Constitution.” The modern-day governance likewise settles the principle of the authority in its existence of the same source is not to be considered to be absolute and unexplainable.  

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25-12-2017

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Raunaq Bagade. “JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN INDIA - WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE? ”. Journal of Legal Studies & Research, vol. 3, no. 6, Dec. 2017, pp. 168-72, https://journal.thelawbrigade.com/jlsr/article/view/2044.