Are 5-star activists driving courts... look within: PM Modi tells judges

April 06, 2015 13:07

Congress senior leader Digvijaya Singh slammed the BJP government and PM Modi for his five-star activist statement, and said that by making this statement PM raised a serious question on the integrity of the judiciary.

On Sunday, calling upon the judiciary to have an internal mechanism for self-assessment and introspection, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Chief Justice of India H L Dattu and other judges to reflect if "five-star activists' and "perception' were driving the judiciary today.

Addressing a joint conference of chief justices and chief ministers from across the country in New Delhi, Modi said it was time the judiciary evolved an internal mechanism of self-assessment, since judges were "not as lucky as politicians', who are under "constant scrutiny'.

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