The Tribune, 27 April 2016
http://epaper.tribuneindia.com/c/9926175
Only verdict speaks
It refers to the article "Judiciary guilty
of ducking political cases" (April 25). Mr Justice Kurian Joseph of the
SC, at the Bar Council of India meet in Chennai on July 26, 2015, said, "A
judge is expected to speak only through his judgment. While performing work as
a judge, if he makes a comment in the bench, never ever build upon that. Never
ever quote or criticize or work upon oral comments of judges in benches. Just
ignore comments. By following such things, the media will do a great service to
the nation and democracy". Recently, the Supreme Court had also echoed the
same sentiment guarding against reporting of its oral observations.
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GOYAL, Bahadurgarh
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In the article “Judiciary guilty of ducking
political cases” (25 April), Mr Jagdeep S. Chhokar quoted a media reportage
giving account of a court proceeding and pleadings/narrations of Parties/their
Advocates and remarks/observations of presiding judges as witnessed by the
reporter in the open Court. However, the actual court order is different from
what is purportedly set out in the reportage leading the learned author to hold
that “the order as pronounced in the court and recorded seems to be different”.
Pertinent here is to recall the appeal made by Hon’ble Mr. Justice Kurian
Joseph of Supreme Court of India while addressing Bar Council of India Meet at
Chennai on 26.07.2015 that “a judge is expected to speak only through his judgment.
While performing work as a judge, if he makes a comment in the bench, never
ever build upon that. Never ever quote or criticize or work upon oral comments of
judges in benches. Just ignore comments. By following such things, the media will do a great
service to the nation and democracy”. Recently the Supreme Court had also echoed
the same sentiment guarding against reporting of its oral observations.