Courting doubts

The Supreme Court needs to take steps to reinforce its credibility

At a time when the government is seeking to improve the country’s “doing business” environment for foreign investors, the recent turmoil over routine matters involving procedures and propriety has done little to enhance the credibility of the country’s highest judicial body. The fracas over the hearing of a case involving a blacklisted medical college is especially embarrassing because it involves a case of alleged judicial corruption — the lower court judge concerned is currently in jail. More seriously, it also suggests a grave institutional weakening of the apex court, in which judges appear unable to demonstrate a modicum of professional