Letters to The Editor — April 25, 2026

Higher judiciary judges

From a plain speechmaking of Article 124 (relating to the Supreme Court of India) and Article 217 (relating to High Court judges), it is wide that judges are escaped to resign nether their ain manus to unafraid judicial independence, and nary acceptance by the President of India is necessary. It had an exalted intent for situations similar erstwhile Justice H.R. Khanna of the Supreme Court resigned erstwhile helium was superseded for main justiceship aft his celebrated dissenting enactment successful the ADM Jabalpur case. It was not intended to beryllium utilized arsenic an flight way by judges specified arsenic Justice Yashwant Varma of the Delhi High Court, successful whose bungalow burnt currency notes were recovered and against whom impeachment proceedings had been initiated. A akin walkaway enactment rightly does not beryllium adjacent for high-ranking authorities officers. A suitable law amendment volition trim the much-talked-about corruption successful the judiciary.