{"id":34009,"date":"2018-10-30T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34009"},"modified":"2018-10-30T15:25:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:55:56","slug":"sc-dismisses-petition-for-sit-probe-in-bribery-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-dismisses-petition-for-sit-probe-in-bribery-case\/","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses petition for SIT probe in bribery case\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/supreme-court-holds-jaiswal-cjar-lawyers-efforts-contemptuous-unethical\/article20443340.ece\"><b>SC dismisses petition for SIT probe in bribery case<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed seeking a Special Investigation Team probe in the medical college bribery case as an effort to \u201ccreate ripples\u201d within the apex court<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the significance of CJAR?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Campaign for Judicial Accountability &amp; Judicial Reforms(CJAR) is a response of people\u2019s movements, and all organizations and individuals working on public interest issues to a judicial system that has become unaccountable, inaccessible and insensitive to the poor.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the verdict?<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court indicated that it was leaning in favour of bringing a quietus to the issue, saying goodwill should prevail.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 38-page judgment drew largely from past verdicts of the Supreme Court dealing with \u201cscandalous allegations\u201d against judges.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judges are not responsible for \u201ccorridor\u201d rumours. Recusal of a judge cannot be sought in such instances on the ground of conflict of interest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is entirely the judge\u2019s prerogative to take cognisance under the Contempt of Court Act and punish a \u201cperson who is unscrupulously trying to influence the decision-making or indulging in malpractices,\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The verdict again referred to a past judgment where contempt was drawn against an advocate for \u201cmudslinging\u201d at the Supreme Court<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC dismisses petition for SIT probe in bribery case\u00a0 Context The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed seeking a Special Investigation Team probe in the medical college bribery case as an effort to \u201ccreate ripples\u201d within the apex court What is the significance of CJAR? The Campaign for Judicial Accountability &amp; Judicial Reforms(CJAR)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-dismisses-petition-for-sit-probe-in-bribery-case\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC dismisses petition for SIT probe in bribery case\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704920802},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34009","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}