Whose tribunal is it anyway?

Delivering the V.M. Tarkunde Memorial lecture on “An Independent Judiciary” in November 2011, Ruma Pal, a former Judge of the Supreme Court, said: “In a Kalidas-like action of cutting the branch of the Constitutional tree on which the judiciary is sitting and what in less picturesque language one can describe as a judicial sell-out to the Executive, the Supreme Court has upheld the legislations establishing tribunals in a number of decisions subject to certain ‘adjustments’ in the law which are more in the nature of sops to the concept of judicial independence rather than an assertion of it.”

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