Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has made important comments about the lives of its judges. The court said judges should live like saints. They should work diligently and avoid excessive use of social media. The court said judges should not express any opinion on certain sentences.
The bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice N. Koteshwar Singh made oral comments in this regard. He made the comments while hearing a case in the Madhya Pradesh High Court regarding the dismissal of two women judicial officers. The Supreme Court made a strong comment on this and said that there is nothing to show off in the judiciary.
The judge said judicial officers should avoid using Facebook. They should not comment on the judgment because if the judgment is quoted tomorrow, the judge has already expressed his opinion in some form. This is an open platform, you have to live like a saint and work hard. Judicial officers have to make a lot of sacrifices. They shouldn’t use Facebook at all.
Don’t post work-related posts on Facebook
R., senior lawyer, appeared for a dismissed female judge. Reiterating the views of the bench, Basant said no judicial officer or judge should publish any post on Facebook related to judicial work.
Senior advocate and amicus curiae Gaurav Aggarwal approached the bench with various complaints against the sacked woman judge and told the bench that the woman judge had also published a post on Facebook. On November 11, 2023, the Supreme Court took up a case in which the state government dismissed six women civil judges due to alleged poor performance.
However, the Full Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on August 1 reconsidered its earlier resolution and decided to reinstate four officers Jyoti Varkade, Ms Sonakshi Joshi, Ms Priya Sharma and Rachana Atulkar Joshi, and two other officers subject to certain conditions Aditi Kumar Sharma and Sarita Chaudhry were left out of the process.
