If India’s judiciary held any hope of regaining some of its lost image in the eyes of the public, then 2019 clearly didn’t turn out to be that year. f there’s one institution in India that would not want to look back on 2019, it’s the judiciary. Even by its poor track record in recent years, the Indian judiciary in 2019 added several new pages of ignominy to its name, letting down those who faced the Narendra Modi government’s disregard for constitutional morality and legality. And leading from the front was the Supreme Court, which has been struggling to look past the unprecedented rebellion by its four most senior judges against then-Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra in January 2018. But if the judiciary as a whole held any hopes on regaining some of its lost image in the eyes of the public, then 2019 clearly didn’t turn out to be that year. The judiciary on most part seemed to side with the Modi government or at least found facetious reasons to give a wide, often questionable, latitude to it and its various agencies, most of them acting beyond the scope of settled principles of justice. This characteristic seems to have become the norm rather than an exception for India’s top judges in the higher judiciary. Here are some instances from 2019 when Indian judiciary went wrong or failed in performing its constitutionally-mandated duty of upholding rights.