In half the world, judiciary has to mandatorily disclose assets. Why is this not the case in India?
This is the first article in an occasional series on legal reforms
No questions can be asked about India being a democracy. Is India a “mature” democracy? Since “sabhas” and “samitis” existed in India thousands of years ago, most people will answer in the affirmative, as they will about Greece, even though neither was a democracy in the modern North Atlantic sense.
But adjectives can be subjective, as with “mature” wine. For clarity in many aspects of life, we look towards courts. A former judge of the Supreme Court (AK Ganguly) has recently told us India is a “mature” democracy. A present SC judge (JB Pardiwala) has told us, even more recently, India isn’t a “completely mature” democracy.
No questions can be asked about India being a democracy. Is India a “mature” democracy? Since “sabhas” and “samitis” existed in India thousands of years ago, most people will answer in the affirmative, as they will about Greece, even though neither was a democracy in the modern North Atlantic sense.
But adjectives can be subjective, as with “mature” wine. For clarity in many aspects of life, we look towards courts. A former judge of the Supreme Court (AK Ganguly) has recently told us India is a “mature” democracy. A present SC judge (JB Pardiwala) has told us, even more recently, India isn’t a “completely mature” democracy.