CJI Chandrachud made the comments while addressing a regional conference of the National Judicial Academy in Kolkata.
“When we are addressed as ‘Honour’ or as ‘Lordship’ or ‘Ladyship’, there is a very grave danger … and people say that the court is a temple of justice. There is a grave danger that we perceive ourselves as deities in those temples. Therefore speaking for myself, though I have my own set of personal values which are deeply personal to me, I am a little reticent when I am told that this is a temple of justice because temple postulates that judges are in the position of a deity,” Justice Chandrachud said.
Source: Barandbench
