n its first comment on the ongoing controversy around whether something is wrong in the country’s biggest high court, at Allahabad, the union government has sided with the Supreme Court’s perception.
In its first comment on the ongoing controversy around whether something is wrong in the country’s biggest high court, at Allahabad, the union government has sided with the Supreme Court’s perception.
On Friday, the Allahabad high court has asked that the SC to expunge the remarks it had made against the high court, to which the apex court retorted instead of “reacting, you (HC) must introspect”.
Law Minister M Veerappa Moily on Saturday echoed the Supreme Court’s sentiments.
“What theyhave said is that instead of reacting, you must introspect. That needs to be done. It is a constant exercise we are doing... The Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill (introduced in the Lok Sabha recently) would address a number of those questions so that the reputation and credibility of the judicial system will be held very high,” Moily said.
It is learnt that there are a whopping 80 vacancies in Allahabad high court, something that overburdens the present judges besides delaying justice.
A Supreme Court bench of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Mirsa had first held that “there’s something rotten” in the Allahabad high court, referring to the number of relatives of judges practising in the same court.
The apex court later rejected the high court’s plea for quashing the remarks, but clarified that their observation applied to many but not all the judges.
Moily also agreed that one should not generalise for all judges. “Both the justices have also said that a large number of judges must have given that impression. But there are honest, gentleman judges and by and large we have an excellent justice system...There may be a few people, may be some exceptions. You cannot take it as a general view. That’s what they have clarified,” he added.
However, Moily said there was not need to panic over the SC’s observations. “After all, even now with some of the exceptions, the judiciary in the country is the best the world over,” he said.
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