He was addressing a symposium on ‘Guaranteeing justice for the widespread man: methods for decreasing litigation prices and delays’ right here.
“Pendency of instances in courts clogs each degree of the judicial construction, from the trial courtroom to the constitutional courtroom. And when a blockage happens on the prime, the strain solely intensifies beneath,” he stated.
He additionally confused the necessity to strengthen judicial infrastructure to scale back pendency.
“It is because with out ample courts, even essentially the most honest judicial system will collapse below logistical pressure,” he stated.
Justice Kant stated expertise was very helpful in the course of the COVID pandemic.
He, nevertheless, stated that one can not afford to neglect that expertise comes with its personal shadows.
“In an age of deep fakes and digital arrests, courts can not afford naive optimism… A reform that excludes the poor, aged, or digitally unfamiliar shouldn’t be reform in any respect, it’s regression. That’s the reason I’ve all the time maintained that expertise should stay a servant of justice, not its substitute. It ought to amplify human judgment, not exchange it,” the CJI stated.
He stated a system the place the manager, legislature and judiciary don’t transfer in concord resembles a tricycle lacking a wheel — the rule of legislation can not stability, not to mention transfer ahead.
“And the results are stark — legal guidelines could also be enacted, offences registered, even liberty curtailed, but the citizen is left ready for the one factor that completes the promise of justice: a well timed trial that the infrastructure is just too frail to ship,” he added.
Amongst others, Orissa Excessive Courtroom Chief Justice Harish Tandon, and judges from excessive courts throughout India attended the occasion, which was additionally joined by Advocate Basic Pitambar Acharya.
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