{"id":218475,"date":"2022-12-15T18:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218475"},"modified":"2022-12-15T18:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:19:03","slug":"unnecessary-mystery-judges-recusing-from-cases-without-specifying-reasons-hurts-the-entire-judiciary-sc-must-frame-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unnecessary-mystery-judges-recusing-from-cases-without-specifying-reasons-hurts-the-entire-judiciary-sc-must-frame-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Unnecessary Mystery: Judges recusing from cases without specifying reasons hurts the entire judiciary. SC must frame rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cUnnecessary Mystery<br \/>\nJudges recusing from cases without specifying reasons hurts the entire judiciary. SC must frame rules\u201d <\/strong>published in <b>The Times of India <\/b>on <strong>14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 2 \u2013 Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About the recusal of judges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Many times Supreme Court or high court judges recuse themselves from cases. Recently, a judge recused from hearing Bilkis Bano\u2019s challenge against the premature release of 11 murder-gangrape convicts.<\/p>\n<h5>What is the recusal of judges?<\/h5>\n<p>Recusal is the removal of oneself as a judge or policymaker in a particular matter. Ordinarily judges recuse over conflict of interest.\u00a0 However, often judges don\u2019t give reasons for recusal.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must read: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-how-judges-recuse-from-cases-and-why\/\">Explained: How judges recuse from cases, and why<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>What are the concerns associated with the recusal of judges?<\/h5>\n<p><strong>a)<\/strong> Judges recusing from cases without specifying reasons hurts the entire judiciary, <strong>b)<\/strong> The frequency of recusal pleas are also growing recently. For instance, rarely a month passes without a judge recusing in Bombay HC.<\/p>\n<h5>What should be done to reduce recusal of judges?<\/h5>\n<p>-A judicial order would make recusal legally contestable at a higher forum but <strong>\u201cprocedural and substantive rules\u201d were needed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>-Judges should state their reasons for recusal from the cases. Every judge would have to comply to this.<\/p>\n<p>If these changes are implemented, the entire judicial system would greatly benefit from the resultant transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cUnnecessary Mystery Judges recusing from cases without specifying reasons hurts the entire judiciary. SC must frame rules\u201d published in The Times of India on 14th\u00a0November 2022. Syllabus: GS \u2013 2 \u2013 Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary. Relevance: About the recusal of judges. News:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unnecessary-mystery-judges-recusing-from-cases-without-specifying-reasons-hurts-the-entire-judiciary-sc-must-frame-rules\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unnecessary Mystery: Judges recusing from cases without specifying reasons hurts the entire judiciary. SC must frame rules<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-218475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":4,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698458316},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}