{"id":52448,"date":"2018-04-21T11:21:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T05:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=52448"},"modified":"2018-04-21T11:21:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T05:51:33","slug":"supreme-court-terms-public-statements-impeachment-judges-unfortunate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-terms-public-statements-impeachment-judges-unfortunate","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court terms public statements on impeachment of judges unfortunate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/sc-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" data-attachment-id=\"52449\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-terms-public-statements-impeachment-judges-unfortunate\/sc-36\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/sc-1.jpg?fit=660%2C358&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"660,358\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/sc-1.jpg?fit=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/sc-1.jpg?fit=640%2C347&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52449\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/sc-1.jpg?resize=300%2C163&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/sc-1.jpg?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/sc-1.jpg?resize=150%2C81&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/sc-1.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court today termed as very unfortunate the public statements, including those made by lawmakers, on impeachment of judges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are all very disturbed about it,&#8221; a bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said after the counsel appearing for the petitioner raised the issue of politicians making public statements on impeachment of judges.<\/p>\n<p>The supreme court asked Attorney General K K Venugopal to assist it to deal with the plea, which has also sought a gag on the media from reporting such statements.<\/p>\n<p>The development assumes significance as it comes on a day when the Congress and other opposition parties have decided to submit a notice to initiate impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. The move comes a day after the SC ruling in the CBI Judge B H Loya case.<\/p>\n<p>However, during today&#8217;s hearing, no reference of CJI was made during brief arguments.<\/p>\n<p>The supreme court, while asking the top law officer of the country to assist it in the matter, posted the case for hearing on May 7.<\/p>\n<p>It, however, refused to pass any order gagging the media, saying it would not do this without hearing the Attorney General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today termed as very unfortunate the public statements, including those made by lawmakers, on impeachment of judges. &#8220;We are all very disturbed about it,&#8221; a bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said after the counsel appearing for the petitioner raised the issue of politicians making public statements on impeachment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[41162,31987,42372,47726],"class_list":["post-52448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-attorney-general-k-k-venugopal","tag-featured","tag-impeachment","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court terms public statements on impeachment of judges unfortunate - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court today termed as very unfortunate the public statements, including those made by lawmakers, on impeachment of judges. &quot;We are all very - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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