Wednesday 30 March 2016

THE PROGENY JUDGES SYNDROME

The chart Below shows that as of now around 64% of the Judges of Supreme Court of India appointed are reserved for the progeny, kith & kin of the existing higher  echelons of judiciary and politics and the remaining 40% is open for the 129 crore people! What an equality?! Really 64:36 sharing, Based upon the principles of natural justice and right to equality!
And this is what is termed as “independence of judiciary”, as will be maintained if the appointments are made by the Collegium. This “Supremacy of Judiciary” will be compromised, if the appointments are done in a transparent manner, after inviting applications to the vacancies and conducting selection procedures.
The Source of this information is the empirical data collected from the respective websites by the author. This is the back ground at which the National Judicial Commission Act,2014 and 99th Constitutional (Amendment) Act, 2014  were enacted. This data is based upon the voluntary disclosures made by the respective judges in the official websites or collected from the reliable websites. Among these are also, some judges have not disclosed the relevant data. It clearly shows that, in reality the self proclaimed quota will be still higher. 

Adv. Mathews J. Nedumpara,
President,
THE NATIONAL LAWYERS’ CAMPAIGN FOR JUDICIAL TRANSPARENCY AND REFORMS.




1..                               Hon'ble Mr. Justice T.S. Thakur,                 CJI          Son of Shri D.D. Thakur,  a former Judge of High Court of J & K            
2.                            Hon'ble Mr. Justice Anil R. Dave                Judge, SCI                          
3.                            Hon'ble Mr. Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar              Judge, SCI                           Practiced as junior of  former Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court, Justice Jawahar Lal Gupta,
4.                            Hon'ble Mr. Justice Deepak Mishra          Judge, SCI           Nephew of Ex CJI & 1st chairman of National Human Rights Commission  Justice Ranganath Misra      
5.                            Hon'ble Mr. Justice Jasti Chelameswar   Judge, SCI                          
6.                            Hon'ble Mr. Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla     Judge, SCI           Son of Late Thiru. Justice M. Fakkir Mohamed          
7.                            Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ranjan Gogoi             Judge, SCI           Son of late Keshab Chandra Gogoi,  former Chief Minister of Assam.         
8.                            Hon'ble Mr. Justice Madan  B.Lokur         Judge, SCI           Son of  Mr.  Justice Bhimji Narayanarao Lokur , Ex Member Law Commission     and Former Judge  of Allahabad High Court.              
9.                            Hon'ble Mr. Justice V. Gopala Gowda     Judge, SCI                          
10.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose            Judge, SCI           Son of Late Shri Justice Sambhu Chandra Ghose  
11.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice Kurian Joseph            Judge, SCI                          
12.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice A.K.Sikri        Judge, SC             Son of Ex-CJI  Sarv Mittra Sikri.  
13.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.A.Bobde   Judge, SC             Son of legal luminary  and former AG of Maharashtra Arvind Bobde.                
14.                          Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shiva Kirti Singh        Judge, SCI           Son of Late Shambhu Prasad Singh, retired  in January, 1979 as a senior most Judge of Patna High Court.            Maternal grandfather Late B.P. Sinha was Chief Justice of India from 1959 to 1964.
15.                          Hon’ble Mr. Justice Chockalingam Nagappan      Judge, SCI                           Practiced as Junior Advocate under Sri K.Parasaran, Former Attorney General of India.
16.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice R.K. Agrawal               Judge, SCI                           Practiced under former Advocate General of UP..
17.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice N.V. Ramana              Judge, SCI                          
18.                          Hon’ble Mr. Justice Arun Mishra               Judge, SCI           Son of Justice H.G.Mishra, Former Judge,  M.P.High Court.  
19.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel Judge, SCI                          
20.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice R.F. Nariman              Judge, SCI           Son of Mr.Fali S.Nariman, Senior Advocate,SCI.
21.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre
                Judge, SCI                          
22.                          Hon'ble Mrs. Justice R. Banumathi           Judge, SCI                          
23.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice Prafulla Chandra Pant             Judge, SCI                          
24.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit     Judge, SCI           Son of Justice U.R.Lalit, former additional judge of the Delhi High Court.     
25.                          Hon'ble Mr. Justice Amitava Roy               Judge, SCI             His father Late Anadi Bhushan Roy was a practising Senior Advocate.             His Father-in-law, Late Salil Kumar Dutta had been a Judge of the Calcutta High Court.



Sl.No     Description         Numbers
1.                            Total Number of Judges in Supreme Court of India.
(As on 28.03.2016)           25
2.                            Sons of Former Judges. 08
3.                            Nephew/Relatives of Former Judges.    01
4.                            Son-in-Law/grandson of Former Judges.               02
5.                            Juniors of former AGI/AG/Judge.             03
6.                            Sons of Senior Lawyers.                03
7.                            Son of Former Chief Minister.    01
8.                            Others. 09
9.                            Total hits by ‘Progeny judges syndrome’.             16
 
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  1. A Sunder Rajan8 May 2018 at 10:59

    Congratulations for collection of the data meticulously for the Supreme Court. I guess the "Progeny Judges Syndrome' in the High Courts Will Be Higher.This is the back ground at which the National Judicial Commission Act,2014 and 99th Constitutional (Amendment) Act, 2014 were enacted.I hope that the NJCA 2014 and the 99th Constitutional (Amendment) Act, 2014 were enacted.I hope that the NJCA 2014 and the 99th Constitutional Amdt Act 2014 are speedily implemented..

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