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The retired judge of the Supreme Court of India Markandey Katju is a pedophile
I’m based in NRI in the United States. A few years ago, my custody case reached the Supreme Court and it was decided in favor of the mother who had moved to India. The case of the Supreme Court was decided by the court of A.Kabir and Markandey Katju.
I recently learned from my daughter, who was 10 years old and 19 now, that during the hearing of the case, Markandey Katju had asked my wife to leave my daughter and my son in his official residence several times on the pretext of knowing the mentality from both. my children. My daughter recently shared some things that make my blood boil.
This happened several times during the course of the court litigation. My ex-wife was super naïve or super-evil for voluntarily sacrificing the innocence of my children to appease the pedophile judges.
I just can not sleep anymore now. Fortunately, I can now talk to my daughter, since she is independent and can not be controlled by her mother. But I can not find out from my son what this monster animal that occupied the position of judge could have done.
The question is, what is the resource I have now? I can not visit India: LOC, NBW and many other things that emanate from my old marriage dispute.
I want to take responsibility and justice to what Katju did to my children. Please help.
Sir why did you apologize to these bullies when they issued contempt notice to you ? we were supporting your right to freedom of expression but you surrendered. If retired Supreme Court Judge can be shut up what hope is there for us common people. be strong this time
-Judicial overreach into legislative affairs
-Judicial Committees to run everything from cricket to banking in India
-Hidden selection of judges, no minutes of collegium meeting, no public access to records on selection
-No live court feed
-Low representation for women on benches
-Managed benches for political cases
-Overwhelming backlog of cases, average 15-20 years for justice
&
-CORRUPTION-
Indian Judicary is today close to total failure. At least some people are willing to talk about it now. None less than Honorable Justice Katju. Time for India to wake up. Judiciary is worse than parliament now and that is some achievement.
Great piece. I often wonder why there are not more voices from within the judicial fraternity bringing to light how rotten it has become at the core. Corruption is just one malaise of many. A lack of clear reasoning in their judgments, off hand pronouncements in court that resemble a street rabble exchange, opaque selection & promotions of judges, overall lack of transparency in their administrative working, total hypocrisy in tackling workplace harresment/complaints against judges and not to mention a highly suspicious “line to succession” for the post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. I hope Justice Katju’s article and book embolden more responsible voices to speak up and push for real change. Justice Chambelshwar has been a lone voice of reform on the SC.
The brotherhood is tight. They must have treated Markandey Katju very poorly for him to speak up against them. It will be a delicious eruption of past sins if the brotherhood issues a contempt notice (for the second time) against Katju, over this book, I hope they are that stupid. It’s a reckoning long overdue. The brotherhood must be broken apart and in its place an institution befitting the Republic must serve all without fear or favor.
Respected Katjuji, your lifetime of work speaks through your judgments. Many of which went against powerful people, societal ills and vested interests. You were not afraid to change your mind and accept you were wrong on something. YET, on this subject, I must ask; why did you accept the elevation of a lawyer to judgeship in Delhi High Court despite his name being rejected at least twice before. I won’t name him but he was known to have a family connection to the most powerful politician at the time (power behind the throne). He also turned out to be a highly corrupt judge. This was not a sanguine choice for judgeship and I wonder if you came under pressure by political forces to select him? If so, that would be a shame.
Did -clean- Justice Katju cave to Political pressure from UPA on some cases? Is that not a cardinal sin for judicial independace as well? I recall the “Talibanisation” observation by him in one case lead to him withdrawing a judgment after political pressure from Manhoman Singh government. Even if the Govt disagreed with his judgment, the correct process was for the case to be heard by a larger bench not withdrawn by a judge. It is only fair he writes about these developments in his book or he is covering up the malaise.
Sir many of us would have wanted you to publish this book earlier but we are still happy you have published. Your many judgments are an inspiration to many of us who believe in the law. I live in Canada but have been following developments home in India. My family are all fans of your work Katju Sir.
Sadly Katju was an aberration from the norm. There are far too many corrupt judges in our courtrooms for Lady Justice to thrive in India. We may have honest judges though there is little evidence of their spine. Sitting quiet whilst their colleagues loot the country is a disgrace but a common affair in today’s India.
Sir, your integrity and impartiality are legendary from your stint as CJ of Delhi HC. We were slightly taken aback with your unique style of managing the courtroom but never could one raise a finger on your legal reasonening or independence.
The Nation would surely have benefited to see Justice Katju serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court before his retirement.
One suspects this was not an accidental oversight of the system and his honesty cost him the opportunity to be ‘first amongst equals’ on the Apex Court.
Justice Katju is undoubtedly one of India’s few public role models for his fearless pursuit of justice for the downtrodden and unquestionable integrity. We salute you Sir.
Transfer is no punishment for an errant bureaucrat. Much less so for a judge. While it may be a temporary expedient, a better course of action, more fair to litigants, would be to withdraw judicial work from the individual and to complete a fair, time bound enquiry. Either the CJI, acting as head of the judiciary, or the collegium, to make the process more broad based, could initiate the enquiry and to ensure removal of the judge if the charges are proven. No reason, in law or equity, why this should not be followed by prosecution if there is sufficient evidence. In none of the cases mebtioned in the column do the concerned judges have faced stringent action. The judiciary does not show similar indulgence to other oublic servants.
The retired judge of the Supreme Court of India Markandey Katju is a pedophile
I’m based in NRI in the United States. A few years ago, my custody case reached the Supreme Court and it was decided in favor of the mother who had moved to India. The case of the Supreme Court was decided by the court of A.Kabir and Markandey Katju.
I recently learned from my daughter, who was 10 years old and 19 now, that during the hearing of the case, Markandey Katju had asked my wife to leave my daughter and my son in his official residence several times on the pretext of knowing the mentality from both. my children. My daughter recently shared some things that make my blood boil.
This happened several times during the course of the court litigation. My ex-wife was super naïve or super-evil for voluntarily sacrificing the innocence of my children to appease the pedophile judges.
I just can not sleep anymore now. Fortunately, I can now talk to my daughter, since she is independent and can not be controlled by her mother. But I can not find out from my son what this monster animal that occupied the position of judge could have done.
The question is, what is the resource I have now? I can not visit India: LOC, NBW and many other things that emanate from my old marriage dispute.
I want to take responsibility and justice to what Katju did to my children. Please help.
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Sir why did you apologize to these bullies when they issued contempt notice to you ? we were supporting your right to freedom of expression but you surrendered. If retired Supreme Court Judge can be shut up what hope is there for us common people. be strong this time
-Judicial overreach into legislative affairs
-Judicial Committees to run everything from cricket to banking in India
-Hidden selection of judges, no minutes of collegium meeting, no public access to records on selection
-No live court feed
-Low representation for women on benches
-Managed benches for political cases
-Overwhelming backlog of cases, average 15-20 years for justice
&
-CORRUPTION-
Indian Judicary is today close to total failure. At least some people are willing to talk about it now. None less than Honorable Justice Katju. Time for India to wake up. Judiciary is worse than parliament now and that is some achievement.
Jai Hind.
Why not appoint Markandey Katju to Head the Lokpal? He has the grit and brains for the post.
I can already see the shivers running down the spines of certain judges, civil servants and politicians ?
Modiji, Katju for Lokpal??
Great piece. I often wonder why there are not more voices from within the judicial fraternity bringing to light how rotten it has become at the core. Corruption is just one malaise of many. A lack of clear reasoning in their judgments, off hand pronouncements in court that resemble a street rabble exchange, opaque selection & promotions of judges, overall lack of transparency in their administrative working, total hypocrisy in tackling workplace harresment/complaints against judges and not to mention a highly suspicious “line to succession” for the post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. I hope Justice Katju’s article and book embolden more responsible voices to speak up and push for real change. Justice Chambelshwar has been a lone voice of reform on the SC.
The brotherhood is tight. They must have treated Markandey Katju very poorly for him to speak up against them. It will be a delicious eruption of past sins if the brotherhood issues a contempt notice (for the second time) against Katju, over this book, I hope they are that stupid. It’s a reckoning long overdue. The brotherhood must be broken apart and in its place an institution befitting the Republic must serve all without fear or favor.
Respected Katjuji, your lifetime of work speaks through your judgments. Many of which went against powerful people, societal ills and vested interests. You were not afraid to change your mind and accept you were wrong on something. YET, on this subject, I must ask; why did you accept the elevation of a lawyer to judgeship in Delhi High Court despite his name being rejected at least twice before. I won’t name him but he was known to have a family connection to the most powerful politician at the time (power behind the throne). He also turned out to be a highly corrupt judge. This was not a sanguine choice for judgeship and I wonder if you came under pressure by political forces to select him? If so, that would be a shame.
Did -clean- Justice Katju cave to Political pressure from UPA on some cases? Is that not a cardinal sin for judicial independace as well? I recall the “Talibanisation” observation by him in one case lead to him withdrawing a judgment after political pressure from Manhoman Singh government. Even if the Govt disagreed with his judgment, the correct process was for the case to be heard by a larger bench not withdrawn by a judge. It is only fair he writes about these developments in his book or he is covering up the malaise.
Sir many of us would have wanted you to publish this book earlier but we are still happy you have published. Your many judgments are an inspiration to many of us who believe in the law. I live in Canada but have been following developments home in India. My family are all fans of your work Katju Sir.
Sadly Katju was an aberration from the norm. There are far too many corrupt judges in our courtrooms for Lady Justice to thrive in India. We may have honest judges though there is little evidence of their spine. Sitting quiet whilst their colleagues loot the country is a disgrace but a common affair in today’s India.
Sir, your integrity and impartiality are legendary from your stint as CJ of Delhi HC. We were slightly taken aback with your unique style of managing the courtroom but never could one raise a finger on your legal reasonening or independence.
The Nation would surely have benefited to see Justice Katju serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court before his retirement.
One suspects this was not an accidental oversight of the system and his honesty cost him the opportunity to be ‘first amongst equals’ on the Apex Court.
Justice Katju is undoubtedly one of India’s few public role models for his fearless pursuit of justice for the downtrodden and unquestionable integrity. We salute you Sir.
Transfer is no punishment for an errant bureaucrat. Much less so for a judge. While it may be a temporary expedient, a better course of action, more fair to litigants, would be to withdraw judicial work from the individual and to complete a fair, time bound enquiry. Either the CJI, acting as head of the judiciary, or the collegium, to make the process more broad based, could initiate the enquiry and to ensure removal of the judge if the charges are proven. No reason, in law or equity, why this should not be followed by prosecution if there is sufficient evidence. In none of the cases mebtioned in the column do the concerned judges have faced stringent action. The judiciary does not show similar indulgence to other oublic servants.