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GS-4JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY - INDEPENDENCE VS FRIVOLOUS LITIGATION

Two Courts, One Petitioner, Zero Success - and Why Procedure Beat the Allegation Twice

The dismissal underscores India's layered institutional protection for sitting judges against direct criminal proceedings, rooted in the 1991 Veeraswami judgment, which bars registering an FIR against a sitting High Court or Supreme Court judge without the Chief Justice of India's prior sanction and the 1999 In-House Procedure, which requires internal peer review of allegations before any external criminal action. The Delhi…

Sub TopicDELHI HIGH COURT'S DISMISSAL OF THE CASH-HAUL PETITION…SourceDELHI HIGH COURT, THE HINDU…
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GS-4ETHICS IN INVESTIGATION - VICTIM JUSTICE VS DOUBLE JEOPARDY

The Order That Restarted a Case From Zero and Closed It Forever for One Man

Nearly 14 years after the rape and murder of a 17-year-old near Dharmasthala, Karnataka, the Supreme Court found that successive investigations by three agencies were conducted so poorly that they left the victim's family without justice while wrongly pursuing Santhosh Rao, who a CBI Special Court acquitted in June 2023 citing basic forensic failures. The Bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Sanjeev Sachdeva ordered a fresh…

Sub TopicSUPREME COURT'S DE NOVO SIT PROBE IN THE DHARMASTHALA…SourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA, THE…
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GS-4INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS - DUE PROCESS VS ACCOUNTABILITY

What Does an Institution Owe the Grieving and What Does It Owe the Accused?

Doolla, who was invigilating the exam where Wakode was allegedly caught using a phone to upload exam questions to an AI platform, was named in the police FIR after the student's death by suicide that same day. Under pressure from an 18-point student charter and three days of protests, IIT Bombay Director Shireesh Kedare suspended Doolla's Deanship on September 22 and apologised for the institute's earlier communication…

Sub TopicIIT BOMBAY'S DEAN SUSPENSION AMID STUDENT-SUICIDE…SourceTHE HINDU, INDIAN EXPRESS…
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