007 Seven sins of Indian Higher Judiciary
Indian Express.Com, in its dated 11.11.11, published a news item. Link for reading this News Item: Higher judiciary guilty of 7 sins: ex-SC judge pulls no punches . SEVEN SINS TAKING PLACE IN INDIAN JUDICIARY 1. temporise, stone-wall and prevaricate. 2. Keeping the process of Appointments of High Court and Supreme Court Judges as extreme Secrets. 3. Taking Independence of Judiciary to mean "capable of thinking for oneself," 4. plagiarism and prolixity. --Prolific and often unnecessary use of passages from textbooks and decision of other judges - without acknowledgment of in the first case and with acknowledgment in the latter. Many judgments are, in fact, mere compendia or digests of decisions of decisions on a particular issue with very little original reasoning in support of the conclusion, 5. Judicial arrogance as to one's intellectual ability and status. 6. Intellectual Arrogance, and Intellectual Dishonesty. 7. Nepotism. "What is required of a judge is a