2. According to the Chief Justice of India there is a
pendency of 3 crore cases in India due to
non delivery of timely and effective justice
3. Consequences of
delayed justice
Some people are approaching goondas, anti-social elements and
police for settlement of inters disputes expeditiously
Many aggrieved are not prepared to knock the doors of justice
because the pain caused due to delay in delivery of justice and
ineffective justice is more painful than the actual grievance.
This can jeopardise the peaceful resolution of disputes and make
people seek justice on their own terms , and can lead to violence.
With passage of time, whatever evidence is there, it will vanish or
eclipse. Oral evidence which in most cases is vital to the most of
prosecution, will take a devious or distorted course.
4. Snapshots
What
government
can do?
Special Courts can be set up quite often in cases involving
large scale financial scams and diversion of public funds by
those in public offices or corporate management.
Action should be taken against defaulters causing delay in
trial.
Utmost care of evidences should be taken until case is
solved.
What
citizens
can do?
We can seek help of Retd. Judges as Arbitrators. Any honest
citizen can act as an Arbitrator to resolve inters disputes
equitably. Arbitrator/s can be appointed from all walks of like viz
Retd. Judges, Lawyers, Engineers, Social workers, Doctors, Retd.
IPS & IAS Officials and etc.
We should be aware of all our rights so that we are not deprived
of any of them while seeking justice.
6. The purpose is to present the collective opinion of the people
which could influence the law makers to take appropriate
decision. Securing justice - social, economic and political to
all citizens is one of the key mandates of the Indian
Constitution. But the experiences of last 63 years show that
the State has failed squarely on addressing some very basic
issues--quick and inexpensive justice and protecting the rights
of poor and the vulnerable. However personality like Nani
Phalkiwala opined that ‘Justice in common parlance is
considered as blind but in India it is lame too and hobbles on
crutches’. The justice delivery system is on the verge of
collapse with more than 30 million cases clogging the
system. There are cases that take so much of time that even a
generation is too short to get any type of redressal. That it
will take more than 300 years to clear the backlog of cases
in Indian courts is proof enough that our criminal justice
system is sick, stagnant and in urgent need of a complete
overhaul.
