SC’s collegium mulled transfer of Karnataka judge | India News – Times of India

Justice V Srishananda (Photo credit: Karnataka judiciary website) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court‘s top five judges, part of the collegium for transfer of HC judges and comprised the bench that had taken suo motu cognisance of Justice V Srishananda‘s unwarranted gratuitous remarks, had mulled transferring him outside Karnataka HC.Between September 20, when the bench of CJI…

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Courts should avoid prejudicial, misogynistic remarks, says SC – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Wednesday admonished Karnataka HC‘s Justice V Srishananda for his controversial reference to a Bengaluru locality as “Pakistan” and his misogynistic comment aimed at a woman lawyer, but spared him of further embarrassment by closing suo motu proceedings as he had tendered an open court apology.A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud…

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