The Morality of Recusals | Guest Column
We don't know of any personal biases that could be reasonable grounds for the en masse recusals in the Navlakha case.
Perception has a huge role in judicial adjudication. People's perception of the independence of our judges from the government of the day is crucial to the credibility and legitimacy of our constitutional courts. In a lecture delivered at a media event on July 12, 2018, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi rightly said "noisy judges" were a democracy's first line of defence and that judges should be "fiercely independent". He went on to say
