Syllabus: GS-II, Subject: Polity, Topic: Judiciary and Tribunals, Issue: Independence of Judiciary
Context: A Calcutta High Court Judge resigned to join a political party.
Key principles guiding judicial conduct:
- Concerns about judicial propriety, impartiality, institutional integrity, and independence.
- These values are foundational to judicial independence and are outlined in the Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct.
- The principles stress the importance of maintaining the dignity of the judicial office and ensuring impartiality and independence.
- Judges should restrain personal biases through education, training, and humility.
- Judges must exhibit inner strength to maintain judicial integrity.
- While judges may not need to make great sacrifices, they must engage in daily acts of self-denial to uphold their duties.
