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The Seventeenth Recusal: When Stepping Aside Becomes a Way of Not Deciding

A CAT Delhi Bench member recused himself on September 21 from Sanjiv Chaturvedi's APAR petition, making it the 17th recusal in the officer's cases since 2013. Earlier instances include Justice Ranjan Gogoi in the Supreme Court in November 2013, Justice Manoj Tiwari of the Uttarakhand High Court in February 2024 and Justices Alok Verma and Ravindra Maithani in September-October 2025. India has no codified rules on judicial…