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Hemant Agarwal (ha21@rediffmail.com Mumbai : 9820174108)     27 November 2009

Corruption in judiciary : Confirmed by Union Law Minister

Corruption in judiciary :  Confirmed by Union Law Minister

 

(Times of India,  dated 27 November'2009, Mumbai edition, page 15)

 


New bill soon to curb corruption in judiciary

 

New Delhi: The government will soon bring a new legislation to check corruption in judiciary and to ensure accountability among judges. 
 

   Announcing this in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Union law minister M Veerappa Moily said the Judges Standard and Accountability Bill will be brought before the cabinet and introduced in Parliament soon. 
 

   Responding to a private member’s resolution on confrontation between the legislature and the judiciary, Moily said: “...a proposal is going to the cabinet that we need to replace, with the permission of Parliament, the Judges Inquiry Act with the Judges Standard and Accountability Bill.” 
  

Referring to the issues concerning the judiciary, including corruption and misuse of PILs, raised by members, the law minister said the time has come to revisit some of them and come out with a legislation. 
 

   On declaration of assets, he said the government had brought a bill, but there were some disputes even at the introduction stage. Still, it had its effect on the judiciary. “We must commend the judiciary. They have responded well to the wishes (by declaring their assets) of this Parliament,” he added. 
 

   The law minister also stressed the need to prevent abuse of PILs, saying precious time of courts should not be wasted on frivolous and bogus litigation. 
 

   On separation of powers of the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, Moily quoted from Supreme Court judgments to say that “The judiciary, executive and the legislature have to be accountable to the people.” He added: “Rivalry and supremacy has to end... They cannot override each other... We cannot ignore the sovereign will of the people.”

 

 

Moily paints a gloomy picture of rule of law

 

New Delhi: Law minister M Veerappa Moily on Thursday painted a gloomy picture of rule of law in the country, saying the scenario was dismal as far as protection of people’s fundamental rights and their right to speedy justice were concerned. 
 

   The National Legal Mission drafted by the UPA government would fast-track the justice delivery mechanism soon, he told Supreme Court judges and lawyers at a Law Day function. He pointed out that more than 60% of the 3 lakh undertrials were languishing in jails because of long delays in disposal of cases. 
 

   Making special mention of women, children, Dalits and undertrials, he said 70% of married women were facing domestic violence, every 35 minutes there was a crime against children and every 18 minutes there was a crime against a Dalit. “They need justice. It is life for them. Are we not supposed to take justice to their doorstep?... If we do not address these problems, we will trigger eruption of a volcano over which we are sitting. Timely redress of their grievances will surely lift us away from the volcano,” Moily said. 
 

   Attorney general G E Vahanvati said brevity was one virtue which lawyers and judges had forgotten these days. “Lawyers continue to argue for days and judges render voluminous judgments. Both are not good for the country saddled with so much of pendency,” he said. 
 

   Giving an update on case pendency, CJI K G Balakrishnan said though trial courts disposed of nearly 2 crore cases last year, fresh filing of 1.8 crore cases kept the pendency at 2.72 crore. TNN
 



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Raj Kumar Makkad (Adv P & H High Court Chandigarh)     01 December 2009

This is not a hot news rather admission of long pending disease but none is coming forward to eradicate this raher mere admission is not sufficient. Govt. has to do something otherwise this desease shall go on day by day until people lose their complete faith over justice delievery system of India and take the law in their own hands.

Anil Agrawal (Retired)     02 December 2009

Corruption My Lord: UP High Court judge, Justice Jagdish Bhalla’s wife acquired a 7,000-square-metre plot at Noida, worth Rs 7 crores, for a paltry sum of Rs 5 lakhs. A UP revenue department note says that a land mafia involved in a case in Justice Bhalla’s court was instrumental in the deal. The note raised a demand for inquiry but Justice Bhalla was elevated as the chief justice of the Kerala High Court in 2006 before the then President APJ Abdul Kalam interfered. However, again in 2008, Justice Bhalla has been nominated as the Himachal Pradesh Chief Justice. The expulsion of two Delhi High Court advocates for offering bribe to a police officer is another sign of the emergence of corrupt judges as it is the advocates who later don the judge’s gown.
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Bhartiya No. 1 (Nationalist)     03 December 2009

It will be a good step. As Judiciary is only and last hope for ordinary law abiding citizens.

Anil Agrawal (Retired)     03 December 2009

 Dear Sir,

"An ordinary and law abiding citizen" has lost faith in police and judiciary. It is a fact of life and would silently suffer rather than approach them.

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SANJEEV KUMAR (STUDENT)     06 December 2009

Anil Ji

You are absolutely right. now cases are filed for delay the case or to settle the scores with other party. I do not think genuine persons are going to court for settlement of disputes.

Think the number of applications being filed u/s 156(3) in the courts and direct summoning of accuseds by the courts. Persons are called even without investigations of cases by the concerned investigative agencies. Then summons are issued on files only.

sanjeev

Anil Agrawal (Retired)     06 December 2009

 It is a great satisfaction that Mr. Sanjeev Kumar shares my perception. Some others have unbound faith in law, police and judiciary. Well, to each his own.

SANJEEV KUMAR (STUDENT)     06 December 2009

Thanx

Anil Agrawal (Retired)     17 December 2009

 Great discovery by Law Minister. Nobel Prize.

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R.K.SUNDERRAJ (LAWYER HUBLI,KARNATAKA)     16 January 2010

I agree with Raj Kumar Makkad

Anil Agrawal (Retired)     16 January 2010

 Bombay - Mumbai

Madras - Chennai

Calcutta - Kolkata

After renaming, food production increased, crime rate fell, suicides of farmers reduced, problems of housing, roads, hospitals, schools, water, sanitation disappeared.

[According to M.S. Gill, Sports Minister, Delhi to be renamed Dilli]

Now

Mumbai High Court, Kolkata High Court, Guwahati High Court, Chennai High Court.

After renaming, all the cases will be decided in a jiffy, number of cases being filed will fall dramatically, corruption in judiciary will disappear, litigants will walk into the court and come out with the judgement. 

If all this comes about, what dear lawyer friends will do? No work?

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girishankar (manager)     16 January 2010

Well Said Anil Agarwal Ji........ Thats called 

 

                             "AVATAR"

Arup Kumar Gupta, Korba, Chattishgarh ((m)9893058429)     16 January 2010

well said mr anil agrawal. lost of people's faith coming out as a high increase of the follower of extremists.

RAJ KISHORE VAISH (TEACHER CITIZEN OF INDIA)     16 January 2010

HON'BLE CITIZEN'S

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                            RAJ KISHORE VAISH

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