Indian Judiciary System

Describing Tamil Nadu as a gifted land with many waterbodies, Chief Justice of Madras High Court Munishwar Nath Bhandari spoke on June 15th,2022 about the wilful negligence of certain corrupt officials, who fail to take prompt action, was spoiling the resources. He

The meaning of the Indianisation of the judiciary, as explained by Justice Ramana, is to be more and more conscious of the existing realities in the country in order to provide greater access to justice for the poor.

हर आदमी ये सोचता है कि न्यायालय से उसे न्याय मिलेगा परन्तु क्या न्यायालय कि शरण में जाने पर उसे वाकई न्याय मिलता है या फिर न्याय कि आस में वर्षो न्याय के दरवाजे पर दस्तक देते देते उसकी उमर निकल जाती है पर उसका केस उसके मरने के बाद भी जिंदा रहता है और कोर्ट या अदालतो में वैसे हि अकारण तारीखें पड़ती रहती हैं।

बात यहाँ न्यायपालिका की है जिसके फ़ैसलों को अब देश का एक बड़ा वर्ग संदेह की दृष्टि से देखने लगा है, और इसके लिए न्यायपालिका स्वयं ज़िम्मेदार है।

Reservation in India is a touchy and dicey subject. And in Tamil Nadu, it is a hot potato. It is minefield, so to say.

Justice Anand Venkatesh, who has by now put money worth Rs.10 crores and odd, in the hands of innocent accident victims, lending mite as more than a rescue and recovery package, they desperately needed.

Judiciary may have done well for itself, to the eternal gratitude of the stakeholders and the litigant public, in particular, in the higher cause of justice.

By entertaining so much worthless Public Interest Litigation, Judiciary is able to successfully exert pressure on government and divert the focus from their incompetence because Public Interest Litigation give them undue popularity and hide their incompetence and shortcomings especially at the lower Judiciary level.

In such difficult times, the Judiciary may be well advised to introduce the precept and practice of Written Submissions, (which is now part of the dispensation under Consumer Protection Act, 1986).

Time may have come for the Central Government and the State Governments, to grab these Pandemic Times, as THE occasion to achieve the twin aims of a huge reduction in the docket explosion in courts and a collateral yet humongous economic benefit in the hands of the litigants.