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Every judge has moral responsibility to respect dharma, truth, and justice: President Murmu

By Jhanak Sharma      02 September, 2024 01:20 PM      0 Comments
Every judge has moral responsibility to respect dharma truth and justice President Murmu

NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday said every judge and judicial officer of the country has the moral responsibility to respect dharma, truth, and justice.

She has called for a change in the ‘culture of adjournments’ in the judiciary, saying the delay in court decisions in heinous crimes, like rape, forces the common man to think that the judicial process lacks sensitivity.

“At the district level, this moral responsibility is the lighthouse of the judiciary. The district-level courts determine the image of the judiciary in the minds of crores of citizens. “Therefore, providing justice to the people through the district courts with sensitivity and promptness and at a low cost is the basis of the success of our judiciary,” she said.

She also underscored longstanding pendency and backlog of cases is a big challenge before the judiciary.

“When court decisions in a heinous crime like rape come after a generation has passed, the common man feels that the judicial process lacks sensitivity,” she said.

Addressing the valedictory session of the two-day National Conference of District Judiciary, the President said programmes such as special Lok Adalat week should be organised more frequently to clear the backlog. “All stakeholders have to find a solution by giving priority to this problem,” she said.

She lamented that in some cases, people with resources continue to roam around fearlessly and freely even after committing crimes.

Those who suffer from their crimes live in fear as if they have committed some crime, she said. She also pointed out that the poor from villages are afraid to go to court.

“They become a participant in the justice process of the court only under great compulsion. Often they tolerate injustice silently because they feel that fighting for justice can make their lives more miserable,” she said.

For them, going away from the village to the court even once becomes a cause of great mental and financial pressure, she said.

“In such a situation, many people cannot even imagine the pain that poor people experience due to the culture of adjournment. Every possible measure should be taken to change this situation,” she said.

The President said many are aware about “White Coat Hypertension” due to which people’s blood pressure increases in a hospital environment. Similarly, she said, the stress of an ordinary person increases in the courtroom settings, a phenomenon known as “Black Coat Syndrome”.

This nervousness renders ordinary people often unable to tell even those things in their favour which they already know and would like to say, she said.



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