Sunday, November 1, 2009

Appointment of High Court Judges

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Appointment of High Court Judges.

Now the Law Minister wants to appoint about 700 High Court Judges on ad hoc basis .Yes it should have been done in the regime of the then Law Minister Hansraj Bharatdwaj. The action of appointment should be done in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and not in arbitrary way. Only retired judges of the High Courts should be appointed again. Secondly the vacancies should be filled up as early as possible from the competent advocates and judicial officers in the ratio of 50:50.These all posting should be done outside their states so that they may get environment to work if they so chose! The ad hoc judges should be given only Civil First and second appeals which the advocate judges do not do and to say most of them are not able to do so. It is most necessary that they should not be given writ work otherwise they will also avoid Civil Work.
It is further to be seen that the government do not pack the judiciary by appointing ‘its’ men as these posts are Constitutional posts. It is also required that the present age of superannuation should be raised to 65 years of High Court Judges and 67 of Supreme Court Judges.

Fight with Judiciary

The Union Law Minister appears to be in fighting mood with judiciary. It appears that the judiciary is for no reason on defensive side therefore he is showing aggressive mood by blaming judiciary that people have lost faith in judiciary and that is why naxalist activities are growing fast. What a jock of the year sir dear Law Minister! Perhaps according to him it is the job of the judiciary to control naxalism .According to him about 3 crorers of cases is pending in the courts. Yes it may be true but this does not mean that due to this naxalist actives have gone up. What about terrorism Maoist activities. What about the governance of Indian government and state governments? Does this mean that these problems may be due to loss of faith of people in judiciary!! Remember that every government is the big litigant in the courts and in most cases advocates for governments are appointed on political basis and out of them most are below average. The government departments always show indecisiveness and avoid reaching any final decision and people have to approach courts under constraint.
Remember that only 2/3 that 67 percent judges are posted against the full straight and there is no reason why the vacancies are not filled up in reasonable time. It clearly goes to show that the judiciary and governments want to paste their men in judiciary! It may not be taken in light mood.
It may be that in higher judiciary problem of corruption and in competency in efficiency may be more but in District Judiciary the main problem is of incompetence of judges to know procedural law and to some extent substantive law. The way in which recruitments are made is very strange and poor. No substantive changes are effected till now. Since 2004 I am trying hard to suggest a scheme to change courses and mode of recruitment and training but to no avail. No one gives head to it.
Poor legal education has never been viewed by the advocates, Universities and Bar Council of India and state units. Copying in law colleges has become very common and there is no one to rein on such activities. An advocate who has just registered as advocate should not be allowed to practice in High Court for at least 5 years. All concerned should look the matter in right perspective. The judges from advocates’ quota are being elevated having no better knowledge in different fields of law. I am saying with full confidence as I have seen such affairs from very near.
It will better for the Law Minister to be sober and have dialogues with the judiciary and avoid so called [cheap] popularity by approaching media and public platforms. Hundreds have come and hundreds will go but nothing substantial would be changed as no one has will power to do better. Every one consumes time and then seats at home comfortably.



Tuesday, July 8, 2008

N-DEAL

N-DEAL

After the announcement by Prime Minister that the government will go ahead with the deal Comrades have declared to withdraw the support. They were supporting the UPA govt. from out side. The reason for support was to keep the non-secular forces [BJP] away from power. For last 4 years they continued to support and also kept their psalmody of withdrawal .It appears that now they have no fear from non-secular forces and now the N-Deal that is irritating them. Who don’t love political power and who don’t want it? The Samajvadi and Congress parties were sword enemies a day before and now they became friends. This is not because Smajvadi Party has to do any thing with N-Deal but it is only because it is concerned to secure better position in Parliamentary elections. Therefore it is supporting Congress in the Center. Why Samajvadi Party from the very beginning of the talks on N- deal did not come with a clear stand that it will support the Congress on this issue though Comrades from the very beginning are against it. Again the Samajvadi Party was in search of an issue to enter in the rehabilitation camp for shelter after receiving a solid and violent knock down from Mayavati in U.P.general elections. Mulayam Singh had been in habit of pulling a long bow. Now he has forgotten his arrogance and contemptuousness. He had lost his and his party’s ground in that election. He is searching a new field for getting face saving seats in the next ensuing Parliamentary elections. He knows that if there is a pact between his and the Congress party his dream may come to reality.

These shameless politicians are now using the name of Dr.Abdul Kalam to save their faces. What Amar Singh says is more ridiculous. He says that few party men had a talk with him for more than an hour and Kalam could convince how the deal is useful, he also says that the PMO house and the IB swung with Mulayam. . What a nice excuse by Socialists! But for last 4 years Comrades could not be convinced. Indian Socialists have the inherent character of changing loyalties and always behave like chameleon. Will these opportunists make clear how long they will support UPA in the parliament? Will such support continue till the new elections are held or it is a compromise for N-Deal only?

No body gave importance to the statement of L.K.Advani. He was very clear in his views. He had said that his party is not against N-Deal. He suggested that the agreement should be redrafted so as to make it clear that the sovereignty of India is not impaired by the inspection of the Indian nuclear arms and ammunition. His suggestion was that the Hyde Act should not come in way and India should be free to have test of N-Bombs at any time the nation likes. His one more version was that the papers should be tabled in the Parliament so that the nation is entitled to know what the deal is. His suggestions were conveniently overlooked.

What nonsense in secular India. The Congress and Socialists are arguing that the deal is not against Muslims and Muslim ideology. Thus the criteria of national security will have to be decided on the ideology of Muslims.
It is frequently and repeatedly said that we want electric energy and by entering into the Treaty India may generate such energy. Will government explain the cost of such energy and the cost per unit to be paid by the consumer and whether it will be comparatively cheaper or not?

The way in which things are going on there appears to be some unfair game which may hit the sovereignty of India. The alert citizens should have vigilance over all such affairs.