A judge should remain a judge forever and not turn into a politician: Former VC of NLUJA

Once you are a judge, you should remain a judge forever. Don’t try to become a politician after retirement, said the former vice-chancellor of National Law University and Judicial Academy J S Patil. He was speaking after the inauguration of a national seminar at JSS Law College. Read here for more details.

While inaugurating a national seminar on ‘Law on information technology in India: Issues and challenges' organised by JSS Law College, former vice-chancellor of National Law University and Judicial Academy J S Patil said that once a judge should remain a judge forever and should not become a politician after retirement. 

“Once you are a judge, you should remain a judge forever. Don’t try to become a politician after retirement. They should not become politicians after retirement. They had to compromise in their judgments. In 2018, SC judges led by justice J Chelameswar held a press conference to air their problems. That was the darkest day in the Indian judiciary’s history,” he said, as reported by Indian Express.

He said that the democracy of the country is controlled by some uneducated, ill-minded, corrupt people, especially in the judiciary.

“Those who don’t know anything about law are becoming judges. If we try to educate them, they become angry because they are the lords of the judiciary. I was always at loggerheads with judicial officers except Justice Shylendra Kumar who passed away recently,” he said.

"The judges believe they are above god. That is the judgment they gave in the Ayodhya case and messed up things. So law students should bring vibrancy in the legal profession like earlier lawyers like BR Ambedkar, Munsi, Iyengar, Iyer, Palkhivala and Nariman,” he added. 

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