Chief justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan rubbished on Sunday reports of a tussle between the judiciary, executive and legislature and said it was a media creation.
KOCHI: Chief justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan rubbished on Sunday reports of a tussle between the judiciary, executive and legislature and said it was a media creation.
“There is no so-called tussle. It is only the creation of the media,” Balakrishnan said.
“I met prime minister Manmohan Singh and Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee recently. There is no tussle,” the CJI said in an interview to a Malyalam TV channel.
“The Speaker has criticised the judiciary and when we get the opportunity, we also reply,” he said.
To bring down pendency of cases, each state should seek more courts. Judiciary is not getting whole-hearted support from the state governments concerned for setting up courts, he said.
On corruption in judiciary, the CJI said, “I have never said corruption is not there in judiciary... However, either most complaints against judges are vague or are being given by litigants who have lost cases. We cannot inquire into such allegations... But when special instances are brought to the court’s notice, such as the case against the Kolkata high court judge, action has been initiated.”
On ways to improve the judicial system in the country, Balakrishnan said the quality of
the justice system had to be improved.
Efforts are being made to ensure that the media reports court proceedings in a correct and fair manner, he said, adding that a week-long training programme for media personnel will be soon held at Ignou.
Elaborating on the problem of pendency of cases, the CJI said India was the only country where there was such huge pendency of cases.
The supreme court gets about 41,000 cases. In no other country, so many cases are filed, he said, stressing the need for setting up more courts. In the supreme court of Norway only 3,000 cases are filed and under 200 cases come up before the 16 judges, Balakrishnan said.
Meanwhile, at a seminar at Behrampur, Orissa high court chief justice BS Chauhan said, “The courts in India are overburdened in such a way that
it will take about 300 years to clear the backlog of cases even if no case is registered from today.”
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