‘Judges Should Not Be On Facebook, Must Live Like Hermits’: Supreme Court

Judges should avoid using social media and refrain from expressing their opinions about judgments online, the Supreme Court has said, observing that they must live like a hermit and work like a horse. Stating that there is no place for showiness in the judiciary, the court said, "Judicial officers should not go to Facebook. They should not comment on judgments because tomorrow if the judgment is cited, judge has already expressed one way or the other."

A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and N Kotiswar Singh made the oral remarks while hearing a case on the dismissal of two women judicial officers - Aditi Kumar Sharma and Sarita Chaudhary - by the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

"It (social media) is an open platform. You have to live life a hermit, work like a horse. So much sacrifice judicial officers have to do. They should not go into Facebook at all," the court observed.