'Mercy, My Lords', pleads Judge before Supreme Court
DELHI'S Additional District Judge Archana Sinha yesterday pleaded, “mercy, my lords”, before the Supreme Court. “No mercy, you had no business to touch an SC order”, the Court told her. She had been summoned to the Supreme Court to explain how she dared to disobey a Supreme Court order. She had virtually quashed a Supreme Court order.
“You are not fit to be a judge, you should resign immediately. This is the limit... an ADJ disobeying and overruling a Supreme Court order. You have no business staying a Supreme Court order”, the Court said.
“We are constrained to say that a certain section of the subordinate judiciary is bringing the whole judiciary of India into disrepute by passing orders on extraneous considerations. We do not wish to comment on the various allegations which are often made to us about what certain members of the subordinate judiciary are doing, but we do want to say that these kinds of malpractices have to be totally weeded out. Such subordinate judiciary judges are bringing a bad name to the whole institution and must be thrown out of the judiciary,” the Court added.
However the Supreme Court finally showed mercy on her and discharged her of contempt proceedings.
A senior advocate submitted, “Had it been someone from the executive, you would have sent him to jail. Please send a strong message in this case.”