Criticising the delay in delivering justice, Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari Saturday said the poor people suffered the most due to delayed justice.

“It is usually the individual citizen and the poor and marginalised among them, who bear the burnt of inadequate or non-existent Alternate Dispute Resolution mechanisms and extended judicial processes,” said Ansari while addressing a function to celebrate 150 years of the Calcutta High Court.

Ansari questioned whether legal knowledge is increasingly being deployed for the rich.

He said that the excessive adjournments were a primary cause for delay in justice delivery.

He pointed out that other reasons such as shortage of resources and capacity, long-winded arguments by counsels, and inadequate strength of judges.

dear raj kumar ji,  there could be no better saying than 'justice delayed is justice denied'". as an enlightened citizens of the country, one feels sad on such sordid affairs. while the rich can afford the delay , same is not true with the common man. the latest announcement of doing away with the fast track courts across the country is going to add to the misery. one cannot blame a single party associated with the justice delivery system,  i.e. govt, judges , lawyers or public, but the cumulative effect of everyone's adverse contribution brings about  rather negative results  on the justice delivery system. unless and otherwise , all of us think out of the box, nothing substantial is likely to come out.