CJI Ramana on the mission of providing justice to the common people
A week ago, the Chief Justice had told the women lawyers, you shout in anger and demand your rights, press for 50 percent representation in the judiciary.
He led the front to break the 21-month deadlock and recommended the appointment of nine judges to the Supreme Court. He speaks wholeheartedly about his commitment to fill hundreds of vacancies in the High Courts.
In June, he said that the right to change ruler once every few years, should not be guaranteed against tyranny and public discourse, is an inherent aspect of human dignity and essential to a properly functioning democracy. Is.
Meet Chief Justice of India NV From Ramana, who has a 360-degree perspective on systemic issues that affect access to justice for the common man and seems to be willing to go the extra mile to make people feel that the law and its institutions are for all.
Be it the courtroom or the stage of any function, Ramana strongly emphasizes that the weak and downtrodden should not be denied justice.
At a function on Saturday, he said it would be impossible to achieve socio-economic justice without providing equal access to justice and that in a democratic country, it is the faith of the people that maintains institutions.
He led the administrative side to end the nearly two-year-long impasse in the Supreme Court Collegium regarding the appointment of judges to the apex court.
Ramana S.A. Bobde took over the top legal post in the country. Bobde retired without sending a single recommendation for appointment to the apex court. In his short tenure so far, Ramana sent nine names to the Centre, which were approved within a few weeks.
It was told that Justice R.F. Nariman had insisted on inclusion of Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court Justice Akil Qureshi in the list of judges recommended for promotion to the apex court.
However, when they were ignored by the Supreme Court Collegium headed by Ramana, no formal protest was registered by the body at any time.
Justice Qureshi, during his tenure as a judge in the Gujarat High Court, sent the current Home Minister Amit Shah to CBI custody in a fake encounter case in 2010. The names of nine judges were sent to the Center after Nariman retired on August 12.
Ramana has also spoken emphatically about the need for 50 percent representation for women in the judiciary.
Women advocates of the Supreme Court had organized a felicitation ceremony for them and the newly appointed judges in the apex court, in which the CJI, while addressing them, said, with anger, you shout and demand that we need 50 percent representation. . This is not a small issue, it is a matter of thousands of years of repression. You are entitled, it is a matter of right. Just like no one is going to give charity.
Ramana has also shown willingness to accede to the long pending demand of the Supreme Court Bar Association regarding nomination of lawyers of the apex court for appointment as judges of the High Court. He allowed SCBA to form a search committee to identify deserving and meritorious candidates.
On the judicial side, a bench headed by the CJI had said that it intends to constitute a technical committee to inquire into allegations of spying on citizens, especially journalists, activists, opposition leaders, etc., by using Pegasus spyware. .
