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No party
wants strong judiciary, moans Supreme Court
Friday February 11, 2011 09:06:17 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: In a dig at
every political party, the Supreme Court Friday said that "no
government wants judiciary to be strong", and cited the paltry
allocation of 0.76 percent of the national budget for the judicial
functioning to buttress its point.
Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly said that
unless the country had sufficient number of courts, "it will take
four years or more for framing of the charges after the filing of
the charge-sheet and still longer for the conclusion of trial".
The court said that committee after committee was being set up to
look into the judicial functioning but without result. Judge
Ganguly clarified that the opinion expressed by him were personal.
Referring to the 50 percent vacancies in the courts all over India
at all levels, the court said the situation may improve if the
central government raises budgetary allocation.
But there would still be a shortage of good judicial officers to
man them, the judges said.
The court noted that it did not have enough manpower to man the
judicial infrastructure.
"Adjournments have become a cancer at all levels" of judicial
functioning, Justice Singhvi said, expressing the court's anguish
over the state of affairs in the judiciary.
The judges moaned that the system had become "sick".
In a clear demonstration of its anxiety to set things right, the
court said that a stage might come when it would have to issue
directions to set the house in order.
"We have to issue the direction. It may appear unusual but it has
to be done," Justice Singhvi said.
The concerns expressed by the court were in continuation of
similar remarks expressed during the last hearing Feb 9 when the
court reminded the Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium of the
vision document which talked of setting up of 15,000 courts to
wipe out the backlog of cases.
Saying "Mr. Solicitor General, we don't want to embarrass you,"
the judges reminded him that he was one of the authors of the
vision document that was released with great fanfare in October
2009.
The observations came in the wake of the submission by Subramanium
on the trial of four accused in tapping former Samajwadi Party
leader Amar Singh's telephones on the basis of fabricated
authorization letters from police and Delhi government's Home
Department.
The dig came after it was told that it took four years to frame
charges in the Amar Singh case
The court is hearing an application by the Centre for Public
Interest Litigation (CPIL) seeking vacation of the court's 2006
order restraining the media from publishing Amar Singh tapes.
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