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Citizens for Democracy Writes Open Letter to CJI Protesting “Cockroach” Remarks

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We are publishing below the Open Letter to the Chief Justice of India, written by Citizens for Democracy

Hon’ble Chief Justice of India
New Delhi.

Esteemed Sir,

Citizens for Democracy (CFD) strongly protests your comment equating environmentalists, RTI activists and others with cockroaches and parasites

While hearing a petition filed by a lawyer seeking designation as a senior advocate, you said in the court on May 15, 2026, “There are already parasites of society who attack the system, and you want to join hands with them?… There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don’t get any employment or have any place in profession. Some of them become media, some of them become social media, RTI activists and other activists, and they start attacking everyone.”

Your comment generated heat and anger among the activists following which you tried to clarify your position the next day: “I am pained to read how a section of the media has misquoted my oral observations made during the hearing of a frivolous case yesterday. What I had specifically criticised were those who have entered professions like the Bar (legal profession) with the aid of fake and bogus degrees. Similar persons have sneaked into the media, social media, and other noble professions as well, and hence, they are like parasites. It is totally baseless to suggest that I criticised the youth of our nation. Not only am I proud of our present and future human resource, but every youth of India inspires me. It is not an exaggeration to say that Indian youth have great regard and respect for me, and I too see them as the pillars of a developed India.”

This is a lame explanation as your comment does target activists who you have presumed that if they are young, and have become activists they must have failed to get “any employment”. In short, using a context of a lawyer seeking the designation as ‘senior lawyer’ you tried to cast aspersions on all those who speak for the ordinary citizens of the country.  We wonder, if you, from the chair of a judge would accept such an explanation. It would have been proper for you to withdraw your uncharitable remarks and apologize for your inadvertence.  What was the judicial rationale behind your comment? Continue reading Citizens for Democracy Writes Open Letter to CJI Protesting “Cockroach” Remarks →

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God-Willed Justice ?

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Is the judiciary being internally hijacked to usher in Hindu Rashtra?

There are a very few legal scholars or advocates who have perceptively looked at the dynamics of India’s judiciary and cautioned us about the dangers that can come our way through those routes only.

Dr Mohan Gopal, is an exception.

This noted scholar who has been very clear about the worldview and strategies of the Hindutva Supremacist forces to achieve the goal of establishing Hindu Rashtra, explains their strategy of executing it “not by overthrowing the Constitution but by interpretation by the SC as a Hindu Document”

Speaking in a programme organised by Live Law, Gopal had explained its dynamic as a two-step process:

One, appointing judges who are ready to look beyond the Constitution.

Two, how with an increase in the number of theocratic judges who find the source of law in religion rather than the Constitution, it will be easy to declare India as a Hindu theocracy under the same Constitution.

( Read the full article here : https://www.newsclick.in/god-willed-justice)