On one side, he has stated that there is no mechanism in the Constitution for taking action against retired judge of the Supreme Court. While on the other side, it is stated that complaint against a retired Chief Justice of India are being looked into by concerned agencies! Department of Justice in response to an RTI petition has stated that judges do not continue enjoying immunity after retirement.

Interestingly Department of Justice has not been able to respond to an nine-month old RTI petition seeking information on holding pensions etc of retired judges during enquiry being conducted against corruption or misconduct like is done in case of government employees.

After all judges are also human beings and are picked up from the same society which has both honest and dishonest persons.

Department of Justice also could not reveal action taken on my submissions addressed to the then President of India on some comments made about a case involving my family in retirement-eve press-conference by a retiring Chief Justice of India.

Citizens of India should no longer be made to bear misconduct and corruption by those seated in higher judiciary either during their tenure or after retirement.

S C Agrawal, Delhi

Nothing wrong

Sir

There is nothing wrong in England’s delay tactics in the last day of the first Test match. At the end of the day they had to last, they had to survive for the last 60-odd balls and they spaced out their allotted amount of overs. It’s just part of the game.

Lakshman, Mandaveli