Will Justice Kaul’s revelations shatter the Collegium’s code of silence?

Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul’s purported disclosures regarding former Chief Justice DY Chandrachud have ignited unprecedented turbulence within the Supreme Court. By piercing the veil of the collegium’s famously opaque deliberations, these revelations have sparked intense corridor whispers: is the judiciary’s unwritten code of silence finally unravelling?

Legal circles are abuzz with speculations that other judges might now feel emboldened to share their own accounts of closed-door appointments, ideological clashes, and administrative frictions. If this ceiling breaks, the resulting flood of transparency could be a double-edged sword. While it might demystify a fiercely guarded appointment process, it risks exposing deep-seated institutional factionalism, potentially eroding public trust in the highest court’s collegial harmony and unshakeable impartiality.