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The Judges (removal) Case

The judiciary is as much in need of transparency as it mandates for others

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Shreekant Sambrani
Here is a sitter of a question in the times of the Indian Premier League: Should the on-field umpires necessarily have to refer every appeal from the fielding side to the third umpire?  “Absurd!” even the meanest intelligence would thunder, “what would they do then?  Just count the balls?”
 
I have no claims of scholarship in jurisprudence. But that is my reaction to the two learned lawyer-members of the Rajya Sabha and their equally learned colleague from the august house representing them, challenging in the Supreme Court the decision of the Rajya Sabha Chairman’s rejection of the motion for
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