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    Towards Transparent Justice: A Study on Judicial Accountability in India
    (NLUJAA, 2026) Saket Sourav
    The question of judicial accountability in India, particularly regarding to whom judges are ultimately answerable, remains inadequately resolved. The Constitution simultaneously insulates the judiciary from political interference and depends upon parliamentary supermajorities to discipline it, a design that, in practice, has made accountability not merely difficult but functionally impossible. Scholars, most notably Geyh, have identified judicial accountability as a multidimensional concept encompassing three distinct axes: institutional accountability, which concerns the judiciary’s performance as an organ of state; behavioural accountability, The higher judiciary, comprising the Supreme Court and twenty-five High Courts, wields authority that is, by any comparative standard, extraordinary. It interprets the Constitution with finality, strikes down legislation, issues writs against the executive, and through decades of expansive Public Interest Litigation has increasingly assumed governance functions once considered the exclusive preserve of elected institutions.