“Two Scales Of Justice: When A Shoe Falls Faster Than A Stack Of Cash”, The Commune, October 07, 2025
“On 6 October 2025, within hours of a courtroom outburst, the Bar Council of India swung into action and suspended a 70-year-old lawyer, Rakesh Kishore, for trying to hurl his shoe at Chief Justice of India BR Gavai. The swiftness of the punishment was almost surgical – the order came the same day, the suspension immediate, the message unambiguous: no indiscipline against the institution will be tolerated.
Meanwhile, in another wing of the same judicial establishment, a serving High Court judge, Justice Yashwant Varma, continues to be called “Justice” even after stacks of cash were recovered from his official residence – money so voluminous that firefighters stumbled upon it during a blaze. An in-house committee of the Supreme Court found “sufficient substance” in the allegations, and 146 MPs have already signed an impeachment motion. Yet, months later, he remains on the rolls, with the process crawling through procedural thickets.
This is where the Indian judiciary’s moral compass looks painfully skewed……”
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