{"id":51489,"date":"2024-03-28T08:06:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T08:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=51489"},"modified":"2024-03-28T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T08:06:40","slug":"lawyers-petition-chief-justice-against-attempts-to-influence-judiciary-by-vested-interest-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/lawyers-petition-chief-justice-against-attempts-to-influence-judiciary-by-vested-interest-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers Petition Chief Justice Against Attempts to Influence Judiciary by ‘Vested Interest Group’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Delhi, Mar 28: <\/strong>A group of lawyers, including senior advocate Harish Salve and Bar Council of India chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra, have written to the Chief Justice of India, alleging that a \u201cvested interest group\u201d is trying to pressure the judiciary and defame courts \u201con the basis of frivolous logic and stale political agendas\u201d.
\u201cTheir pressure tactics are most obvious in political cases, particularly those involving political figures accused of corruption. These tactics are damaging to our courts and threaten our democratic fabric,\u201d their letter, dated March 26, addressed to CJI D Y Chandrachud said.
The letter, shared by official sources, targeted a section of lawyers without naming them and alleged that they defend politicians by the day and then try to influence judges through the media at night.
This interest group creates false narratives of a supposed better past and golden period of courts, contrasting it with the happenings in the present, the letter said, claiming that their comments are aimed at influencing courts and embarrassing them for political gains.
The group of lawyers, who are behind the letter titled \u201cJudiciary Under Threat-Safeguarding Judiciary from Political and Professional Pressure\u201d, number around 600 and also include Adish Aggarwala, Chetan Mittal, Pinky Anand, Hitesh Jain, Ujjwala Pawar, Uday Holla and Swarupama Chaturvedi, the official sources said.
Though the lawyers behind the letter have mentioned no specific cases, the development comes at a time when courts are dealing with several high-profile criminal cases of corruption involving opposition leaders.
Opposition parties have accused the central government of targeting their leaders as part of its political vendetta, a charge refuted by the ruling BJP. These parties, whose ranks include some noted lawyers, have joined hands against the recent arrest of Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal in the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case.
Targeting critics, these lawyers have accused them of suggesting that courts in the past were easier to influence. This shakes the public\u2019s trust in courts, they said.
\u201cTheir antics are vitiating the atmosphere of trust and harmony, which characterises the functioning of the judiciary,\u201d they said in their letter to CJI Chandrachud.
They have also concocted an entire theory of \u201cbench fixing\u201d which is not just disrespectful and contemptuous but an attack on the honour and dignity of courts, the letter said.
\u201cThey have also stooped to the level of comparing our courts to those countries where there is no rule of law and accusing our judicial institutions with unfair practices,\u201d it said.
These critics have adopted the \u201cmy way or the highway\u201d approach at work as they hail the decisions they agree with, but any decision they disagree with, is trashed, smeared and disregarded, they said.
\u201cThis two-faced behaviour is harmful to the respect a common man should have for our legal system,\u201d the letter said and claimed that this cherry picking has been visible in very recent judgments too.
\u201cSome elements are trying to influence who the judges are in their cases and spread lies on social media to put pressure on them to decide in a particular way,\u201d they alleged in the letter.
Questioning the timing, the lawyers said it is all happening when the country is headed for the elections.
\u201cWe are reminded of similar antics in 2018-2019 when they took to their \u2018hit and run\u2019 activities, including fabricating wrong narratives. These efforts to belittle and manipulate the courts for personal and political reasons cannot be allowed under any circumstances,\u201d they said.
They urged the Supreme Court to stand strong and take steps to protect courts from these alleged attacks.
\u201cStaying silent or doing nothing could accidentally give more power to those who mean to do harm. This is not the time to maintain dignified silence as such efforts are happening since few years and too frequently,\u201d they said, adding that the CJI\u2019s leadership is crucial in these \u201ctough times\u201d. (Agencies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Delhi, Mar 28: A group of lawyers, including senior advocate Harish Salve and Bar Council of India chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra, have written to the Chief Justice of India, alleging that a \u201cvested interest group\u201d is trying to pressure the judiciary and defame courts \u201con the basis of frivolous logic and stale political agendas\u201d.\u201cTheir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[1971,1032,73,1033,3576],"class_list":{"0":"post-51489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-national","9":"tag-chief-justice","10":"tag-earlypostdaily","11":"tag-india","12":"tag-latestnews","13":"tag-vested-interest-group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51491,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51489\/revisions\/51491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}