While Mohit Shah will spend his last night today as the Chief Justice, let us hope and pray that the long comatised Bombay High Court regains Consciousness tomorrow.
With that failed dream of elevation to the Supreme Court, Mohit Shah who has been stagnating as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court since 26th June 2010 retires tomorrow.
In March 2013 the collegium of the Supreme Court had rejected his name for elevation on the ground that he was not suitable to be a Supreme Court Judge and that his elevation would prove to be counter-productive and not conducive to the administration of justice. It is an irony that someone found unsuitable to be a Supreme Court judge was allowed to continue so long as the Chief Justice of a very key High Court. God save our Judiciary from being a failing institution with declining standards of integrity.
Caroline Kennedy had said “The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing“
But sadly the Judiciary in India is also visibly sliding down the tube with these dark days looming. The very sanctity and independence of the Judiciary is at stake. Very disturbing signs that the Judiciary is being reduced to a mouth piece of the government. Courts may end up as dens of chicanery and jugglery.