Safeguards not enough; judges need to shed biases, shun pressures: CJI
New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- An independent judiciary does not just mean insulating the institution from the executive and legislature, but also the independence of individual judges to perform their duties by shedding political and social pressure as well as inherent biases, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud said on Sunday, even as he stressed that the constitutional safeguards currently in place were not enough in themselves to ensure an independent judiciary....
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