May 30, 2019 Thursday
Bedtime Story
The state of the Third Branch in Hindu Nation
It is impossible for any society to impart
a meaningful justice either criminal or civil to its citizens that is both
overpopulated and suffers from inequality of unbelievable proportions.
It is an openly accepted fact that
judiciary system in countries such as India and it likes are out of bounds of
95% of its population.
It is not surprising to come across the
adjectives such as “crisis”, “clogged”, “failure” and so on for the Indian
judiciary by the very people who are most closely associated with it.
The World Bank report of 2012 had the
following statement with respect to governance in India:
“Although India’s courts are notoriously
inefficient, they at least comprise a functioning independent judiciary.
Property rights are not fully secure, but
the rule of law, a legacy of British rule, generally prevails.”
From the conclusion it is evident the Hindu
justice system is deeply flawed but not hopeless as understood by the literal
sense of the word.
The pendency of cases in the Indian courts runs
into tens of millions if not into hundreds with the state being, by far, the
biggest litigant of the country.
In spite of losing the cases in the lower
courts they keep on appealing and piling cases at the higher appellate courts
only adding to the burden on the judiciary.
Over and above this massive pendency of
cases there is on average 20% vacancy of the sanctioned positions for judges
which if filled could help to some extent lower the pile up of cases in the
courts.
Both these factors (massive pendency and
high vacancy) are worsened by the plague of corruption that has grown its
deadly tentacles in all aspects of the Hindu society including judiciary with
no aspect of transaction remaining uncontaminated from it.
There is not an iota of doubt (albeit
impossible to prove) that corruption is rampant in Hindu courts occurring in
myriad of forms ranging from overtly direct bribes to judges to much more
subtle ways in the form of delays or other such manipulations of orders and
dates by bribing the junior officers of the court.
The most worrisome aspect of judicial
corruption of India is that it has percolated its highest echelons which made
the legal activist and Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan blurt out in
2009 that “out of the last 16 to 17 Chief Justices, half have been corrupt.”
It is just that such senior-most activist-type
and celebrity advocates who regularly appear on newsroom shows can afford to have
this type of audacity to state this truth so openly what the other lowly and
average advocates talk all the time in privately amongst themselves in legal
bars and libraries.
Such talk about corruption is not limited
to advocates.
On January 12, 2012 a bench of Supreme
Court publicly states that the faith of public in the judiciary is decreasing at
an alarming rate which poses a serious threat to the constitutional and democratic
governance.
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