Interestingly, the department of justice has not been able to respond to a nine-month-old RTI petition seeking information on the pensions of retired judges during the enquiry being conducted into cases of corruption and misconduct of government employees. After all, judges are also human beings, and are picked from the same society which has both honest and dishonest persons.

The department of justice could not reveal whether any action had been taken on my submissions addressed to the then President of India on comments made about a case involving my family in the retirement-eve press conference addressed by the outgoing Chief Justice of India. The citizens of India should no longer be made to put up with the misconduct and corruption of those seated in the higher judiciary.