Corruption in judiciary

Justice Kurian Joseph who retired recently from the apex court has told news reporters:

" I  will never really agree that there's corruption in higher judiciary. If it is in the lower judiciary, it is the state's concern. In the higher judiciary, it has not come to my notice."

The learned judge is wrong on two counts. First, absence of corruption in higher judiciary is too good to be true. What readily comes to mind is the rhetorical statement that absence of proof is not proof of absence. Kurian Joseph was among those who implicated directly or indirectly the then CJI  in a medical college corruption case. However, one fervently hopes that Kurian Joseph's view as stated now, on corruption is true.

Secondly, is corruption in the lower judiciary the concern of only state governments? Can the Supreme Court wash its hands off what is happening in lower judiciary? This amounts to judicial dereliction. Simultaneous display of overreach and dereliction by the apex court may be entertaining but is also deleterious in its implications for the society.