The Gujarat High Court’s recent order that a single adverse remark against a judge or a question raised on his/her integrity was sufficient ground for compulsory retirement is significant, as it calls upon the judiciary to adopt the highest ethical standards and urges judges to be ‘honest to the core’. A bench of Justices AS Supehia and LS Pirzada, while dismissing the plea of petitioner JK Acharya, an ad hoc sessions judge who was compulsorily retired along with 17 other sessions judges in 2016 by the High Court’s full court, said that even issuing a show cause notice was not necessary, as compulsory retirement in public interest does not amount to punishment.

Rejecting the argument........

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