‘Crocodile tears in name of safeguarding judiciary’: AILU condemns letter by 600 lawyers to CJI

‘The present regime has been making a direct onslaught and subtle subterfuge against the basic structure of the Constitution, including independence of the judiciary, and ridiculing the judiciary for exercising power of judicial review on legislations’

R. Balaji

The All-India Lawyers Union (AILU) has condemned the recent letter by 600 lawyers to the Chief Justice of India alleging attempts by some lawyers to pressure the judiciary, terming the initiative “crocodile tears in the name of safeguarding judiciary”.

“…The present regime has been making a direct onslaught and subtle subterfuge against the basic structure of the Constitution, including independence of the judiciary, and ridiculing the judiciary for exercising power of judicial review on legislations,” the AILU said in a statement.

“The scathing criticism and attack made by none other than the Vice-President of India and the law minister against ‘judicial review’ and ‘basic structure’ in the name of supremacy of Parliament, claiming it as sovereignty and demanding a determining role and power for the executive government for selection of judges was part of this well-orchestrated plan,” the letter added.

The AILU statement, issued by its president Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya and general secretary P.V. Surendranath, both senior advocates, alleged direct intervention by the executive in the transfer of high court judges. It said the government had interfered with the transfer of two such judges “on extra-judicial-extraneous political reasons”….

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/crocodile-tears-in-name-of-safeguarding-judiciary-ailu-condemns-letter-by-600-lawyers-to-cji/cid/2010529

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