{"id":122647,"date":"2018-01-12T13:27:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T07:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=122647"},"modified":"2018-01-12T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T07:57:47","slug":"judges-cry-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/judges-cry-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges cry for Democracy\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an unprecedented event\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1842800165\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in the history of the Indian judiciary, four top judges of the Supreme Court met the media and said they were convinced that \u201cunless the judiciary is preserved, democracy can\u2019t be protected in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The four \u2013 Justices J Chelameswar, Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurien Joseph \u2013 an event that Chelameswar said was \u201cextraordinary in the history of any nation\u201d but that they were \u201ccompelled\u201d to do it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_-7411106354777932076gmail-zdt_display_placeholder_364488\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Chelameswar said the \u201cadministration of the Supreme Court was not in order and many things which are less than desirable have happened in last few months\u201d.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Chelameswar added: \u201cWe collectively tried to persuade Chief Justice of India (Dipak Misra) that certain things aren&#8217;t in order\u2026 so take remedial measures, but unfortunately, our efforts failed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLet the nation decide that,\u201d Justice Chelameswar said when asked if the Chief Justice of India should be impeached.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe met the CJI today with a specific request which unfortunately couldn&#8217;t convince him that we were right\u2026 therefore, we were left with no choice but to communicate it to the nation to please take care of the institution,\u201d Chelameswar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprecedented event\u00a0Friday\u00a0in the history of the Indian judiciary, four top judges of the Supreme Court met the media and said they were convinced that \u201cunless the judiciary is preserved, democracy can\u2019t be protected in the country\u201d. The four \u2013 Justices J Chelameswar, Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurien Joseph \u2013 an event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[467,62945,42622,62944,62946,62947,62948,62949,850,62950],"class_list":["post-122647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-democracy","tag-democracy-at-stake-says-supreme-court-judges","tag-j-chelameswar","tag-judges-cry-for-democracy","tag-justice-kurien-joseph","tag-justice-madan-lokur","tag-justice-ranjan-gogoi","tag-stake","tag-supreme-court","tag-supreme-court-judges"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cj.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}