‘Judiciary is being unjust to citizens’

The Bharati Vidyapeeth deemed university’s New Law College (BVUNLC), Pune, inaugurated ‘E-Court’. As part of the function, a legal discourse on ‘Future of Indian Democracy’ was presented by Justice Deepak Verma (judge, Supreme Court of India). He was the chief guest at the event organised in the NLC auditorium on BVU’s Erandawane campus.

Showing his satisfaction with the professional five-year degree course in law, Verma expressed that though the profession is overcrowded, there is room at the top through hard work and intelligence.

He emphasised that an advocate’s skill is gauged only when he argues a matter in the court. He stressed on law professionals to be proficient in English language as it is a global language.
Speaking about Indian democracy, Verma said that the Democratic Republic pattern of India implies that there should not be any monarchical system of government in the country.  “It has become hard to determine the future of democracy due to dynastic politics,” he said.

Disheartened with democracy being eroded even in judiciary, Verma said, “The piling up of cases in various courts across the country is a classic example of injustice being meted out to the citizens by the judiciary.”

He further said that the social and economic democracy is the foundation on which political democracy would be a way of life in the Indian polity. “Our endeavour must be to transform political democracy into a social form”, added Verma.