Supreme Court Justice Jamshed Pardiwala points out the damage
caused to the judiciary by an unregulated social media
Personal attacks against judges harm the rule of law, observed Supreme Court Justice Jamshed Pardiwala, delivering an address on "Vox Populi vs Rule of Law: Supreme Court of India,” at the Justice H. R. Khanna Symposium, on July 3, 2022. Noting that media trials were not healthy for the rule of law, he called for regulation of social and digital media. "In India, which cannot be classified as a completely mature or informed democracy, social digital media is employed frequently to politicize purely legal and constitutional issues,” Pardiwala was quoted by the legal website livelaw. He wanted Parliament to "look......