015, #015 How only Landed Caste Advocates get appointed as High Court Judges in Telugu States?


TODAY'S highlights:

  1. IS THERE RESERVATION FOR LANDED CASTES IN INDIAN JUDICIARY?

  2. Clarification: I am aged 70. I have no personal interest in writing this essay of analyses/review. I am not in a queue to be appointed as judge of any Court . In a way, I am writing these blog posts, even at the cost of incurring the wrath-s of Courts.

  3. Aged persons have already become 'disposables' in the context of Covid-19. Hence, going to jail by writing truths, may probably result in some personal hardships in jail; but then what is the use of living like a 'disposable oldman who has no right even to cough' ? Therefore , I appeal to every person who reads my blog posts, not to get hurt. I have no malice against any individual. Whatever I write, I write as an atheist and Marxist. It is not that atheists and Marxists can throw stones on others. Nobody can throw stones on others whether Atheists-Marxists or not.

  4. Besides, my blogs nobody reads. My blogs are to me, like gasket release levers or safety valves of pressure cookers, to release some steam, to prevent explosions.

  5. According to News Reports Mr. Boppudi Krishna Mohan, Ms. K. Lalitha Kumari, and Mr. K. Suresh Reddy have been recommended by Supreme Court Collegium, to be appointed as Judges of Andhra Pradesh High Court, Amaravati .

  6. It is also reported that the Collegium approved the proposal for elevation of advocate B Vijaysen Reddy as a Judge of the Telangana High Court, Hyderabad.

  7. It is also reported that : CJI Bobde, Justices N V Ramana, Arun Mishra, R F Nariman and R Banumathi are the Collegium Members.

  8. So far so good. Every well-wisher of democracy in India supports the idea of a strong and independent Judiciary as a sine qua non for the success of "a Government of the people, by the people, for the people." I am not sure whether Abraham Lincoln the American President to whom this quote is attributed also dreamt of the Independence of Judiciary.

  9. It, probably, be in the interest of the Independence of Judiciary that the Collegium of Supreme Court Judges decides on the appointment of High Court and Supreme Court Judges .

  10. Supreme Court, has also invalidated a National Judicial Commission Law made by Indian Parliament which has tried to create an institutional mechanism for appointment of Judges to higher Judiciary .

  11. This self-assertion took place when the Central Executive (Which is Ruling Party and which Prime Minister is immaterial) desperately wanted to make the Supreme Court Judges malleable, pliable, and dancing to the Ruling Party 's tunes.

  12. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...", thus observed John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, a 19th Century British Historian.

  13. This wise saying can apply not only to Bureaucrats and politicians , but also to Judges , howsoever unbiased and wise they may be .

  14. Biases may take place unintentionally .

  15. INSTANT CASE

    Out of the four Judges appointed for the Telugu-Speaking States, two Judges are said to belong to Kamma caste, and two Judges are said to belong to Reddy caste. Both the castes are top landed castes of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana .

  16. Shri Boppudi Krishna Mohan --Kamma caste [also called Choudary caste]. Smt. K. Lalitha Kumari -aka- Lalitha --Kamma caste [also called Choudary caste]. Shri K. Suresh Reddy --Reddy Caste.

  17. [Telangana High Court] Shri B. Vijayasen Reddy --Reddy caste . Also happens to be son of LokAyukta Judge Shri B. Subhashan Reddy . Another example of dynastic succession. Justice R. Subhash Reddy , Supreme Court Judge is reported to be the brother-in-law of Late B. Subhashan Reddy.

  18. All the four are advocates. They are not promotees from District Judiciaries.

  19. In the appointment of Judges to High Courts of other States also, a similar situation may be prevailing. In every State of India, we may find two or three dominant LANDED CASTES.

  20. Advocates of landed castes can endure the hardships of eking out livelihood as Lawyers easily, because they have untaxed agricultural sources of income. Besides, they can use their surpluses from Agriculture in other businesses, investment avenues such as Share Markets, using their spare time, when Courts do not function or when cases get adjourned .

  21. Lawyers from Landed castes tend to get more and richer clients and Corporates.

  22. Though, occasionally , there may be 'rags-to-riches' stories of 1st generation entrepreneurs , normally landlords of fertile / irrigated districts tend to start agrobased and other industries, Hotels, Private Colleges under Reimbursement Schemes, Hospitals under Government Schemes and get transformed into industrialists. Hence, there will be synergic relationships between landlords, industrialists, and landed-caste-lawyers.

  23. Most people belonging to poor and Lower Middle classes do not have capabilities to approach High Courts and Supreme Court , because poorer Sections of Society do not have the moolah to pay the various types of fees of Landed Caste Lawyers. Hence, Landlords and Industrialists, Corporate clients approach Landlord lawyers for filing petitions and appeals in High Courts and Supreme Court.

  24. To continue. Subject to corrections of facts and views.

  25. References

    1. http://problemsoftelugus.blogspot.com/search/label/754
    2. http://problemsoftelugus.blogspot.com/search/label/737
    3. http://problemsoftelugus.blogspot.com/search/label/587
    4. http://problemsoftelugus.blogspot.com/search/label/871

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