Supreme Court objects to Karnataka HC judge calling Bengaluru locality ‘Pakistan’ | India News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday took a dim view of Karnataka HC judge V Srishananda's purported gratuitous reference to a Muslim-majority Bengaluru locality as Pakistan, and said it would consider laying down guidelines to keep judges from getting carried away during judicial proceedings and ending up being the butt of ridicule on social media.CJI D Y Chandrachud took suo motu cognisance of Justice Srishananda's controversial reference to a Bengaluru locality in the course of observations on traffic rule violation, which trended on social media along with his misogynistic comment aimed at a woman lawyer.The CJI constituted a bench of the top five judges - Justices Sanjiv Khanna, B R Gavai, Surya Kant and Hrishikesh Roy besides him - to record SC's displeasure over judges going overboard...