Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed concern over the huge backlog of cases pending in the courts and stated that it is incumbent upon the state government to double the number of judicial officers. He was addressing a joint conference of chief minister and chief justices of high courts.
On the occasion, PM said sanity and logic should not be lost to emotional outbursts and shrill rhetoric.
The prime minister's appeal to maintain sanity and logic was apparently in the context of the national outrage in the wake of the Dec 16, 2012 Delhi gang-rape.
Manmohan Singh further said that laws which regulate our daily life should be certain, stable and reasonable.
The prime minister expressed concern over the huge backlog of cases pending in the courts. He said it was incumbent upon state governments to double the number of judicial officers and, correspondingly, augment judicial infrastructure to address the problem.
Chief Justice Altmas Kabir pointed to the declining trend in the rate of conviction and faulted investigation for it, saying investigation these days is not what it should be.
There are various issues and proposals likely to be discussed at the conference. The conference is organised by the union law and justice ministry, are the demand for doubling the existing number of district and subordinate courts, filling vacancies in high courts and lower courts, setting up of fast-track courts and improving the infrastructure required to expedite trials.
Needless to say there are over three crore of pending cases in various courts in the country.
(With inputs from IANS)
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