Fifty-six former judges of the Supreme Court and various High Courts have issued a strong statement expressing “serious exception” to the m ove by opposition Members of Parliament to initiate impeachment proceedings against Madras High Court judge Justice G.R. Swaminathan. The former judges have termed the attempt a “brazen effort to browbeat judges who do not fall in line with the ideological and political expectations of a particular section of society.”

The statement, released on December 12, warns that permitting such a motion to proceed would “cut at the very roots of our democracy and the independence of the judiciary.”

The former judges stress that even if the reasons cited by the MPs are taken at face value, they are “wholly inadequate” to justify invoking the extraordinary con

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