Justice Jasti Chelameswar, who retired as the second most senior Judge of the Supreme Court on June 22, probably won more admirers and critics than any other judge in recent history. He presided over an unprecedented press conference in which four sitting judges of the Supreme Court spoke to the national media about problems that centered around the lack of transparency on the administrative side of the Supreme Court. Justice Chelameswar stopped attending meetings of the Collegium for a while out of sheer frustration. Ulterior motives were attributed to his defiance, but these have not fazed him. Free speech and transparency […]
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