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A judge can only be removed through impeachment for proven misbehavior or incapacity. A complaint requires signatures from 100 Lok Sabha or 50 Rajya Sabha members and is investigated by a 3-member committee with judges and a jurist. If found fit, impeachment is debated and requires a 2/3 majority in both houses to pass. No judge has been impeached yet, though in 1991 a motion against a judge failed due to abstentions. Currently a motion is pending against a Calcutta high court judge and another was filed ag

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