What can Supreme Court docket do to self-discipline justice Shekhar Yadav?

Justice Yadav’s actions and beliefs, the CJAR stated, have been “expressed in categorical phrases”, and “elevate critical questions on his health as a choose, particularly, as a choose of a constitutional court docket such because the Allahabad Excessive Court docket…his statements betray his incapacity to behave with equity, impartiality and neutrality within the discharge of his judicial capabilities”.

Former attorney-general C.Okay. Daftary, recalled senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, would say there have been two sorts of judges — ‘some have been forward-looking whereas some would look ahead’. Hegde quipped that justice Yadav’s speech appeared like a job utility for a future position in political life and recalled that former Calcutta Excessive Court docket choose Abhijit Ganguly would pull up the Mamata Banerjee authorities virtually day by day and is now a BJP MP, having received a Lok Sabha seat.

With justice Yadav retiring in 2026 and the UP Meeting election due in 2027, it was doable that he’s the sort of choose who’s ‘trying ahead’.

Impeaching a choose is a long-drawn-out course of. Signatures from not less than 100 MPs can be required to maneuver the movement. If and when it’s accepted, Parliament would arrange an inquiry committee which might submit its report back to Parliament. It will then be debated in each Homes earlier than the movement was put to vote. It may take years to question justice Yadav, if in any respect, with the federal government unlikely to help it.

There’s, nevertheless, unanimity that the speech can’t be ignored. Justice Yadav not solely used intemperate language directed on the Muslim neighborhood, he waded right into a political difficulty which is more likely to be dragged to court docket.