{"id":2193,"date":"2024-04-25T05:55:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2024-04-25T05:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:25:29","slug":"q-consider-the-following-statements-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-statements-100","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following statements:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The motion to impeach a Judge of the Supreme Court of India\u00a0cannot be rejected<\/strong>\u00a0by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha as per the Judges (Inquiry) Act 1968.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The\u00a0Constitution of India defines<\/strong>\u00a0and gives details or what constitutes \u2018incapacity and proved misbehaviour\u2019 of the Judges of the Supreme Court of India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The details of the process of impeachment of the Judges of the Supreme Court of India are given in the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. If the motion for the impeachment of a Judge is taken up for voting, the law requires the motion to be backed by each House of the Parliament and supported by a majority of total membership of that House and by not less than two-thirds of total members of that House present and voting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Which of the statements given above is\/are correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • (a) 1 and 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • (b) 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • (c) 3 and 4 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • (d) 1, 3 and 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Answer: (c) 3 and 4 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

      Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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      • The Judges (Inquiry) Act,1968 contains the detailed procedures for the removal of Judges of the Supreme Court or the High Court.\u00a0Under this Act, the Chairman or the Speaker may or may not admit the motion of impeachment.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The\u00a0constitution nowhere defines<\/strong>\u00a0the term \u201cincapacity and proved misbehavior\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The\u00a0Judges Enquiry Act (1968) regulates the procedure<\/strong>\u00a0relating to the removal of a judge of the Supreme Court by the process of impeachment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The motion for removal of a Judge is to be\u00a0signed by 50 members of the Rajya Sabha or 100 members of Lok Sabha<\/strong>\u00a0and it has to be passed by a majority of the House and 2\/3rd of those present and voting in the same session<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
        Impeachment of CJI<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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        • There is\u00a0no specifically any provision<\/strong>\u00a0in the Constitution that deals with the\u00a0impeachment of the<\/strong>\u00a0CJI<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • \u201cProved misbehaviour or incapacity\u201d is mentioned in\u00a0Article 124(4)<\/strong>\u00a0of the Constitution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • It is the ground for impeachment of a\u00a0Supreme Court judge<\/strong>. The CJI is only the first among equals.\n
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          • Hence, the CJI too, like other judges of the SC and HCs, can be impeached on this ground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

            Impeachment procedure<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            • The\u00a0Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968<\/strong>\u00a0contains details of the process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • The\u00a0motion<\/strong>\u00a0is to be signed by 50 members of Rajya Sabha or 100 members of Lok Sabha.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • If it is admitted, an\u00a0inquiry committee<\/strong>\u00a0will probe the charges.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • It will consist of an\u00a0SC judge, a Chief Justice of an HC and a distinguished jurist.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • If the charges stand proven, the motion is to be presented to each House of Parliament.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • It has to be passed by a\u00a0majority<\/strong>\u00a0of the House\u00a0and 2\/3rds<\/strong>\u00a0of those\u00a0present and voting<\/strong>\u00a0in the same session.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Even if the charges are proved, the Parliament is not bound to remove the judge.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Finally, the\u00a0President<\/strong>\u00a0will issue the\u00a0order removing the judge.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Judge\u2019s Right \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The particular Judge has the right to be heard.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • However, this is not available at the time of admission of the motion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • During the inquiry, the judge has the full right to defend.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Which of the statements given above is\/are correct? Answer: (c) 3 and 4 only Notes: Impeachment of CJI Impeachment procedure:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[39],"years":[54],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-polity","years-54"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":39,"label":"Indian Polity"}],"years":[{"value":54,"label":"2019"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":39,"name":"Indian Polity","slug":"indian-polity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":188,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}