We all have drawn facts from our childhood civics books that legislature, executive and judiciary are three important pillars of democracy (especially in India) and for the effective working of a diverse and robust democracy like ours these three pillars should maintain their integrity and accountability towards the society. As we all grew up, our civics books were no longer our source of facts and in the current era of transparent opaqueness where there is no news that do not serve any interest,we all have few opinions in common i.e about the corruption. There have already been questions, allegations, evidences and convictions in cases of corruptions against a number of eminent personalities belonging to the two important pillars of our democracy i.e legislature and executive. Our political leaders, bureaucracy and law and order have lost their faith in the eyes of a common man long while ago. But, throughout all these years, when our democracy is struggling to make itself relevant and significant among the modern youth and common man, one thing has been constant. The integrity of judiciary has remained unquestioned, it has remained the most faithful and trustworthy institution. This pillar of democracy may have been questioned for delay in its decisions, but there have never been questions of corruption or conflict of interest. But this incident (four Supreme Court Judges questioning the process of working of CJI ) has left us with many questions, which need to be answered immediately so as to maintain the same trust in the judiciary. We shall not judge the judges whether CJI is having any conflict of interest or the 4 judges should not have expressed their concern/dispute in front of media. Every coin has two sides and so is the case here, but one thing is evident from this incident is that everything is not going right at the apex of the judicial system. We can look at the incident both ways and we may have enough arguments on each side to declare either the CJI or these judges guilty, but by judging the judges we are only politicizing the issue which will ultimately lead a common man losing faith in the judicial establishment. The solution to this problem should not be political. It is something related to the trust of a common man and the supreme court should itself resolve this in such a way that our faith is restored in them. This incident has shook our trust in the judicial system and as I said earlier there are numerous arguments by which we can doubt CJI's integrity or vice versa. This incident also lays some light on our political establishment where we have less than half a dozen people at the top having all the supreme powers. Directly or indirectly they are the ones who appoint the heads of all the constitutional or government bodies. It's high-time that there should be more transparency and the common people should know the grounds on basis of which a person is made head of an institution. Transparency is the only way to reduce such conflicts and in the modern time of immense technical advancements and a young educated youth, the way system is working should change.
