The National Law University celebrated annual Convocation the last Monday, and Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekawat had been there on the occasion. His Excellency, the Vice President, Bhairon Singh Shekawat was pointing at the pending cases in several courts of India that were in huge numbers. The Vice President warned, the graduating community, of the fury they may have to face from public should justice be not delivered on time. "The fury is building up," is what he said while addressing at the convocation of the National Law University, Jodhpur.
He also substantiated the reason for 3 crore plus pending cases in the various subordinate courts and about 35 lakh pending cases in various state High Courts and attributed partially to the vacancies in the respective courts for judges.
He remarked that there is a need to address these through multi-pronged initiatives which include and not limited to inflating the strength of judges, infrastructure of courts, modernizing the judicial process, encouraging alternate systems for dispute redressal and also reinforcing the Lok Adalats. He also suggests of the need for fast track courts to speed up dealing of serious crime cases, election dispute cases and corruption cases.
He also brought into limelight the growing distate for the Indian judicial system felt by commonman. He further brought into notice the languishing time of undertrials at various prisons and that some of them serving there for time longer than what could be the maximum term they could have been sentenced to, should they have been found guilty. He remarks that it is inhuman to have such inordinate delays in the trial of cases.
He urged the graduating lawyers to take cases of gross violation of the Fundamental Rights especially of below poverty line group of people and to exercise legal perception in dealing such cases and set themselves as role models.
Is it just another convoation speech or something that the graudating lawyers will take seriously? I remember former President Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam suggesting that every Supreme Court judge work for two hours in addition to what he does to close the pending cases, and set themselves as example for other judges to tackle backlog cases. But how many of the SC judges have taken this Man's word seriously? Even if there be one, I salute!
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