Fixing Accountability of Judges Will Enhance the Sagging Credibility of District Courts in India.

Abstract

Judges need to have accountability. It has been stated and observed that judges are not accountable for their judgments, orders and other judicial proceedings and they may pass the judgments, orders rightly or wrongly. In the way, an unfettered immunity has been granted to them for their actions in performing judicial actions in the name of judicial independence or judicial autonomy. Due to this, judges have become more independent, fearless since they are not accountable for their judicial judgments, orders and other judicial functions. Sometimes the judges may interpret the law wrongly and cause injustice rather than providing justice. An effort has been made to understand why there is need that the judges should be accountable and appraise it against number of benchmarks.