{"id":28793,"date":"2024-12-17T04:23:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T22:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28793"},"modified":"2025-04-08T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:39:19","slug":"procedure-for-removal-of-a-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/procedure-for-removal-of-a-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Procedure for Removal of a Judge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is the Procedure for Removal of a Judge?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Constitutional provisions: <\/strong>Under <strong>Articles 124<\/strong> and <strong>217<\/strong> of the Indian Constitution, a <strong>Supreme Court<\/strong> or <strong>High Court judge<\/strong> can be removed by the <strong>President<\/strong> on grounds of <strong>\u2018proved misbehaviour\u2019<\/strong> or <strong>\u2018incapacity\u2019<\/strong>. The motion must be passed in both Houses of Parliament:\n<ul>\n<li>By a <strong>majority of the total membership<\/strong> of the House, and<\/li>\n<li>By a <strong>two-thirds majority<\/strong> of the members <strong>present and voting<\/strong> in the same session (special majority).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Constitution does <strong>not define<\/strong> the terms <strong>\u2018proved misbehaviour\u2019<\/strong> or <strong>\u2018incapacity\u2019<\/strong>. However, the <strong>Supreme Court<\/strong> has clarified through its judgments that actions such as <strong>wilful misconduct<\/strong>, <strong>corruption<\/strong>, <strong>lack of integrity<\/strong>, or offences involving <strong>moral turpitude<\/strong> constitute misbehaviour.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Incapacity<\/strong> refers to a medical condition that includes <strong>physical<\/strong> or <strong>mental limitations<\/strong> preventing the judge from performing duties effectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Detailed Procedure Under the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The procedure for removal of judges is elaborated in the <strong>Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968<\/strong>, which requires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>motion for removal<\/strong> is to be signed by <strong>at least 50 members<\/strong> in the <strong>Rajya Sabha<\/strong> or <strong>100 members<\/strong> in the <strong>Lok Sabha<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Chairman of the Rajya Sabha<\/strong> or the <strong>Speaker of the Lok Sabha<\/strong> has the discretion to <strong>admit or reject<\/strong> the motion after consultation.<\/li>\n<li>If admitted, a <strong>three-member committee<\/strong> is constituted, comprising:\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>Supreme Court Judge<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>High Court Judge<\/strong>, and<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>distinguished jurist<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The committee investigates the allegations. If the judge is <strong>cleared<\/strong> of misconduct or incapacity, the motion is dropped and not pursued further.<\/li>\n<li>If the committee finds the judge <strong>guilty<\/strong> of misbehaviour or incapacity, the report is tabled in <strong>both Houses of Parliament<\/strong>, where the motion must be passed by a <strong>special majority<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1. Who is the current CJI of the Supreme Court?<\/h3>\n<p>The current (Dec 2024) Chief Justice of India is Justice Sanjiv Khanna<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/what-is-the-procedure-for-removing-judges-explained\/article68993259.ece#:~:text=The%20detailed%20procedure%20for%20removal,members%20in%20the%20Lok%20Sabha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What is the procedure for removing judges? | Explained &#8211; The Hindu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Articles 124 and 217 of the Indian Constitution, a Supreme Court or High Court judge can be removed by the President on grounds of \u2018proved misbehaviour\u2019 or \u2018incapacity\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}