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Why it is in news?
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- Chief Justice of India (CJI) recommended the impeachment of Justice Shri Narayan Shukla, the eighth senior-most judge of the Allahabad High Court, following an adverse report about him by an in-house panel set up by the CJI.
- The CJI has set the process in motion with a letter to the Prime Minister for the impeachment of the judge.
- When the impeachment motion is moved in Parliament, an investigation is conducted.
- If the findings of guilt are confirmed, the impeachment motion will be put to vote for the removal of the judge by a majority.
- The move for a possible impeachment of Justice Shukla began with Allahabad High Chief Justice D.B. Bhosale withdrawing judicial duties from him from January 23, 2018.
- The trigger was a scathing report by the committee led by Madras High Court Chief Justice Indira Banerjee.
- Justice Shukla joined the Allahabad High Court in 2005 and was set to retire on July 17, 2020.
- His orders in the cases of blacklisted private medical colleges in Lucknow had come under the scanner of the CJI Bench last year.
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SC direction defied
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- Chief Justice had expressed “shock” at an order passed by a Division Bench led by Justice Shukla on September 1, 2017, allowing the G.C.R.G. Memorial Trust, based in Lucknow, in defiance of a “graphically clear” restraining direction from the Supreme Court on August 28 to stop admissions for the academic session 2017-18.
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Corrections to order
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- he Supreme Court noted how Justice Shukla, on September 4, even made some corrections to the September 1 order.
- On November 23, CJI in a 14-page judgment, held that the Division Bench, led by Justice Shukla, had abandoned “the concept of judicial propriety” and transgressed judicial rules to “proceed on a path where it was not required to.”
- The CJI noted that such transgressions caused “institutional problems”.
- The Justice Banerjee Committee was formed shortly after this judgment on December 8.
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Source
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The Hindu
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