Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal, along with CPI's D Raja and KTS Tulsi, address the media after opposition parties submitted a notice to initiate impeachment proceedings against CJI Dipak Misra, in New Delhi on Friday. Pic/PTI

This week, it seemed as if the last institution that held India's faith was demolished. True, many lost faith in the judiciary's lower tiers long back, partially due to the case backlog that made running to courts a nightmare, but also because of visible corruption. The quality in lower courts is suspect. The Allahabad High Court confirmed these suspicions last October when it overturned the CBI court's 2013 verdict in the 2008 Aarushi murder case; it also called the earlier verdict poorly written. (The case has reached the Supreme Court in appeal, so perhaps the Allahabad HC will experience deja vu.)