who would criticise the judiciary?

Litigants and appellants, who are court regulars, know many ugly inside truths about judges. They know about courtroom politics, malpractices, habits and biases of judges, and the channels through which they are routinely approached for corruption. On a conservative estimate, there are a hundred persons in every court who are potentially whistle-blowers.

What prevents these people from actually blowing the whistle? Most of them are keeping quiet because they don't want to jeopardize their own cases.

These are the people with perfect locus-standi and cause-of-action for speaking up against the court, because they are among the most affected by malpractices and corruption. Sadly, they are silent because they feel like hostages rather than users of the judicial service provided by the nation.
It is ironic that they are keeping quiet precisely because they have so little faith in the system. And so the system goes on unchecked... because all its stakeholders are part of the conspiracy of silence for their own special reasons.

Undertrials and convicts in jail have maximum knowledge about the human-rights abuses that our judges and lawyers are committing on a daily basis. They must be allowed to speak. We must find a way to give them back their voices.

Miscarriage of justice is the norm in our country, not the exception. Due to multiple faults in our system, many of the people currently in jail don't deserve to be there. They are there because of an undue and unjust process.

The judiciary derives most of its power from this ancient, barbaric custom of sending people into dungeons, and depriving them of family and normal society. It has almost absolute power to jail us on one or the other pretext, and it derives its moral authority from our mind-numbing fear of being judged and found guilty of something or the other.

What is worse, We The People have blocked prisoners out of our consciousness. We have excommunicated them, and most of us believe that they are not citizens at all, but just outcasts, evildoers and worthless trash. That is our fatal mistake.
This is how our tyrannical judiciary divides us into haves and have-nots. We, who have freedom, despise the have-nots and will never speak for them. We are afraid of becoming like them.

Judges are India's undisputed aristocratic class. They have almost nothing to fear. They live in a perfect bubble of privilege. No matter how corrupt or criminal they are -- individually and collectively -- they cannot be punished. Every attempt to impeach a corrupt judge since Independence has miserably failed.

All judges are part of a grand CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE. For the most part, the only thing that they have to fear is peer-pressure and social boycott by their own brother-judges. They know of every malpractice and corruption of the judiciary, and some, like Chief Justices, briefly enjoy the power to DIRECTLY FIGHT these evils if they wish. But rather than fighting this great disease and antagonizing their colleagues, they maintain a "judicious silence".

Even the courageous few who speak out -- like Justice Ruma Pal -- pacify their conscience by making cryptic comments and criticisms, rather than exposing the entire dirty system with details. That too, mostly after retirement.

India is on her knees in prayer, awaiting the day when a few experienced judges will respond to the call of conscience and fearlessly decide to reform the judicial system.

Lawyers and court insiders have detailed knowledge of how citizens are wrongfully deprived of their life, liberty, justice and hope. They know of various judges' corruption, malpractices and bad habits. And yet, even the honest ones among them suppress their conscience and keep quiet.
This is because they have much to lose if they open their mouths, and much to gain by keeping their mouths shut and taking advantage of the faults in the system.

Sarkaar shares a cozy relationship with the judiciary, particularly with the important judges who hear Writ Petitions & PILs. Neither Govt. of India nor any state government wants judiciary to become a truly effective checks-and-balance mechanism in our democracy. In fact, the more slow and unresponsive judiciary is, the easier it becomes for any sarkaar to keep common people and activists under control!
Judiciary is a crowd-control mechanism that enables the State to suppress the people who dissent. It is NOT a justice mechanism.
This is a sad reality that We The People must work hard to change.

 Although our netas -- ruling party as well as opposition -- publicly take up issues relating to common man, they keep quiet about judiciary. The reason is, there are always criminal cases pending against almost every neta, dragging on for decades. So judges always have a firm grip on their egg-rolls, and can squeeze very hard if annoyed.

 

Even firebrand journalists avoid reporting on or writing editorials on the glaring foibles of the judiciary, because being held in contempt jeopardizes their career.
And of course because media houses don't give them any opportunities to criticize the judiciary, in the first place. It is considered too risky... and media houses, after all, are commercial ventures and not crusaders.

Although their sources often give journalists authentic documentary information about many wrongdoings in lower and higher judiciary, media bosses are afraid of publishing such stories... because of the well-known tendency of judges to interpret the law of contempt in their own favour and pass draconian orders against the media house and journalists.

Why many of well-known anti-corruption activists and human rights champions maintaining silence over judiciary? Is it the fear that they may have to go to jail for contempt? Or are they afraid of tarnishing their brand value by going where media may not support them.

For the ills of our nation, the public generally points fingers at the political parties, government, police, bureaucracy, etc. But it is very rare that anybody points fingers at the judiciary. Why this conspiracy of silence?
Let us discuss the reasons why various stakeholders or interest-groups have remained silent for decades... starting with the common man.
And let us ask whether keeping silent is good for the nation.

Source; Social Media, the Indian Jury of developed judicial system of West.