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NGO offers tips for judicial reforms

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published Published on Nov 29, 2015   modified Modified on Nov 29, 2015
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: A non-government organisation has come up with a raft of ideas to reform the judicial system, saying unless things were speeded up it would take at least a hundred years to dispose of the current backlog of three crore cases.

The suggestions from the Children's Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting (CRISP) came in representations the NGO made to Chief Justice of India (CJI) H.L. Dattu and Union law minister V. Sadananda Gowda.

The proposals include video-recording of court proceedings, time-bound disposal of matrimonial disputes and an independent national judicial appointments commission not only for monitoring appointments of judges but also for regulating jobs that judges might be offered after they retire.

According to the NGO, more than three crore cases were pending in various Indian courts, including over two crore in district courts. At the current rate, it would take at least a hundred years to dispose of all these cases, it said, reminding that speedy justice was a core value of human rights.

So, a "speedy, transparent and effective judiciary" is the "need of the hour", CRISP founding member and president Kumar Jahgirdar said in the representations. After all, he added, "everybody is directly or indirectly affected in the slow process of our judiciary system".

Chief Justice Dattu, too, had recently stressed on the need for quick disposal of pending cases as there was an alarming increase in the number of cases being filed.

Among the suggestions the NGO came up with were audio and video-recording of all court proceedings to ensure transparency and accountability and making use of user-friendly information technology tools designed by qualified persons for courtime management and allocation of cases.

It called for time-bound justice in sensitive matters like matrimonial disputes, corruption cases, environment issues and public interest cases.

The NGO suggested that the government create an Indian Judicial Services like the IAS, IPS and the IFS, and set up a full-time independent national judicial commission to administer appointments of judges, train them, look into complaints and monitor post-retirement jobs.

More district judges, it said, should be elevated to high courts, so that persons experienced in judging cases on merit are preferred in public interest.

The NGO said governments should take immediate steps to ensure quality investigative machinery, including the establishment of fully equipped forensic laboratories.

It said all chargesheets should be filed within six months and called for creating a support group so that whistleblowers and social activists, who are under constant threat, get legal aid and protection.

The Telegraph, 29 November, 2015, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1151129/jsp/nation/story_55752.jsp#.Vlp1D781t_k


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