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Solutions To Problems Faced by The Indian Judicial System
Solutions To Problems Faced by The Indian Judicial System
Judicial System
1. Adding a new goal to the Five Year Plans of Government :
Increasing judicial strength -India having just 13 judges per
million of its humongous
population is a clear sign that it lacks the infrastructure to
provide the grounds for judicial improvement in the country.1
Being the largest democracy, India is far behind in planting
judges to its courts Increasing the supreme court with the best
high court judges and so on for the lower courts will provide a
better strength of judges in the courtroom’s.
2. Taking big cases directly to required courts - Some cases
involve big names and large groups that require high level of
investigation but are
admissible in lower courts. By this it means that cases which
involve high profile names or are of national importance
should be fast tracked to supreme court directly which cuts the
cost and time of normal procedure. There are certain cases
which are destined to be high profile, high pressure and waste
everyone's time. There are many ordinary citizens who are
satisfied with a sessions court and can go no further. They
should have greater priority over the high profile cases which
in any case end up disregarding both the sessions court and
high court to end up in the Supreme Court.
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The problem is that if the government acts urgently and drastically now,
we may have a change only after five-ten years. That's how grim things
are. But then the first drastic step has to be taken, whatever it is.
3. Availability of Court functioning- When the country is
working 24X7, Indian Courts should also be available at least
in all working days
throughout the year. This is a long term shot as only when the
number of judges increase will that allow the courts to open at
all days. The availability of courts at all days will allow the
judicial system to work efficiently and more cases to be
heard.In stead of having a "lady justice" who is blindfolded, it is
better to have one with her eyes open and arms free 24 hours
a day.
4. Developing advanced and modern courts- This is a very
important yet not usually considered point. When everything is
being modernised, why
should the courts be left far behind? Our courts should be fully
digitised and technical experts should be brought in to
streamline the whole process right from when a person files a
case, to updating it and to the final verdict.We can even have
a group of editors to condense all verdicts and not be bogged
down by long, rambling final judgments. What if our judges
wore a military uniform? Would that increase efficiency?
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
5. Non-acceptance of flippant cases- If you are a powerful
citizen with a lawyer with good connections, then you can get
any kind of cases admitted in court, which may, however, be
thrown out at a later stage leading to a lot of time being
wasted.There should be clear guidelines issued to all judges
on not accepting flippant cases. Some times to avoid
immediate actions people file cases that are not even logical
or have a clean decision but just so that they could have some
extra time before the jurisdiction, they file one.
not “perfect.” According to the SC, the bar council was invited
to amend the NJAC saying that the committee must comprise
of the Chief Justice of India and four senior judges of the
supreme court.Well, let’s say on this matter the government
and the supreme court stand face to face, but the fact is still
unanswered whether the stated amendment or even the
current proposal bring transparency in the selection of judges
and make the framework clear to the common public?
5. Lack of interaction among people and courts- For any
Judiciary to be successful, it is necessary that the general
public must know the
mechanics of judiciary. The society must participate in the
court proceedings. However, it is the duty of public as well to
make sure that they are participative enough to have the
knowledge related to the judiciary. The law officer and makers
must be close to the public and seek their opinion on a
particular law or judgments.