http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?711615 No Government Wants a Strong Judiciary: SC
"No government wants strong judiciary," was how the Supreme Court today expressed its exasperation over the low budgetary allocation to the judiciary. A bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly said less than one per cent of the budget is allotted to the judiciary which is facing a huge infrastructural problem and shortage of manpower. "No government wants strong judiciary. It is only on the paper. Look at the budgetary allocation. It is less than one per cent," the bench remarked while pointing out that the judiciary is overloaded and a large number of courts need to be set up across the country for speedy justice delivery. Pointing out the infrastructural problem and growing vacancies in the judiciary, the court said "it is a very very difficult situation. If by chance the government does it (setting up more courts), then we have difficulty in getting competent people." The court's remarks came while hearing a petition filed by former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on phone-tapping case. It expressed its displeasure over the tardy of progress in the trial of the case. The bench, after going through the records of the case and the number of cases pending before the Chief Metropolitian Magistrate, found that the judge was handling around 1500 cases and delay was because of frequent adjournments. "Unless we have sufficient number of courts, such a situation would prevail. Four years would be taken for hearing on charges and further four years in concluding the trial. It should have been done in three months. These adjournments have become cancer of the entire institution," the court said. > These adjournments have become cancer of the entire institution," the court > said. *** Why is it that India cannot change what does not work? _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
