Speaking at the first session titled ‘Supreme Court Judicial Administration & Management – Issues and Concerns’ on February 24, at a seminar organised by the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms, in collaboration with The Wire and LiveLaw, former Supreme Court judge Justice Kurien Joseph said that “there is a perception in the minds of the public that the master of roster business is not handled the way it should be handled.”

Justice Joseph said that the Chief Justice of India is the guardian of the Constitution of India and a judge’s job is to uphold the constitution and laws. “(A judge’s) conscience is not special, his conscience is the constitutional conscience. It is not formed by his ideology or patrons who have helped him reach that position. He is the conscience keeper of the constitution. Whatever he does is done only to uphold the constitution.”

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