Rajya Sabha member and former Chief Justice of India and Ranjan Gogoi has criticised the judiciary, saying if one goes to Indian courts they would have to wait endlessly for a verdict, reported India Today.
“If you go to court, you don’t get a verdict, all you do is wash your dirty linen,” Gogoi said at an India Today Conclave East on Thursday. He also said that the judiciary in India is in a “ramshackled” state.
“How important the judiciary is as a constitutional body need not be emphasised,” Gogoi said. “You want a 5 trillion-dollar economy, but your judiciary is ramshackled.”
He said that subordinate courts in India added about 60 lakh new cases to their workload in 2020. Similarly, the figure of pending cases in High Courts have risen by about three lakh and the Supreme Court admitted 6,000-7,000 new cases in the previous year, Gogoi said.
This implies that there are about 4 crore pending cases in the subordinate courts, a little over 44 lakh cases in the High Courts, and about 70,000 in the Supreme Court.
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In this context, Gogoi called for a roadmap to improve efficiency of the judiciary. “The roadmap I have in mind is to have the right man for the job,” he said. “You don’t appoint judges the same way you appoint officers in the government. To judge is a full-time commitment. It is a passion. There are no working hours. It is a 24/7 job.”
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