New Delhi: Ram Nath Kovind believes that if the president of the country can be criticised, there is no reason why members of the judiciary cannot be pulled up. The BJP’s presidential candidate had said in a debate in Parliament that “if the appointing authority” of judges, that is the president, could be censured, so could the judiciary. Kovind, who was a Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh and a former lawyer, spoke at length on the Bill that sought to reform contempt laws. Of course, he can’t be hauled up for contempt of court because he happens to be from the same community (of the judiciary),” Kovind said. “This is rather adversely affecting our judicial system and the deliverance of administration by the system,” he said

Source: Mint June 20, 2017 12:30 UTC