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No govt wants strong judiciary, says SC

The Supreme Court on Friday said that the government does not want to prop up a strong judiciary expressing its dipleasure over the meagre budgetary allocation to it.

“No government wants a strong judiciary . It is only on the paper. Look at the budgetary allocation. It is less than one per cent,” said a bench comprising Justice GS Singhvi and Justice AK Ganguly.

The court pointed out that the judiciary is overloaded and a large number of courts need to be set up across the country for speedy disposal of cases. Zeroing in on the infrastructural problems and large number of vacancies in the judiciary, the court said "it is a very very difficult situation. If by chance the government does it (setting up more courts), then we have difficulty in getting competent people" . The court passed its observation while hearing a petition filed by former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on phone-tapping case.

It expressed its displeasure over the tardy progress in the trial of the case.

The bench, after going through the records of the case and the number of cases pending before the Chief Metropolitian Magistrate, found that the judge was handling around 1500 cases and delay was because of frequent adjournments.

"Unless we have sufficient number of courts, such a situation would prevail. Four years would be taken for hearing on charges and further four years in concluding the trial. It should have been done in three months. These adjournments have become cancer of the entire institution," the court said.