Letter by 600 lawyers “a threat to the judiciary”; “they don’t speak in their own voice”; "CJI guilty of fixing benches”: former Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising to Karan Thapar for The Wire.

In a hard-hitting and often passionate interview about the letter written by 600 lawyers (including Harish Salve) to the Chief Justice of India, alleging “a vested interest group is trying to pressure the judiciary”, and to also speak about two articles she has written in response (The Wire and the Indian Express), former Additional Solicitor General and one of the leading lights of the legal profession, Indira Jaising, has said “the letter is a threat to the judiciary”. She says that in contrast to its claim that unnamed lawyers are trying to “pressure the judiciary, influence judicial process and defame our Courts”, this letter is guilty of doing just that.

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