The Brave Pedestrian

Decade after decade, people are becoming more and more convinced that the judiciary does NOT exist to maintain Rule Of Law. People are gradually losing faith in concepts of Law and Justice. Tareekh pe tareekh and arbitrary judgments are like knives being stabbed into the collective heart of Indians. In the face of this treachery with India -- the India that belongs to our children -- how can we remain silent? Our silence regarding the judiciary's failures endanger's our children's future. http://tinyurl.com/Judiciary- creeping-danger Regards, Krish 9821588114

High Court and Supreme Court judges routinely give the finger to lower courts & competent authorities, on many matters that they obviously have no understanding of. They issue stay orders against the execution of the lower court's (often well-argued) orders without any clear reasoning, and often without even hearing out the other side. This undermines the entire judicial system, and demoralizes litigants who have worked hard for months, and spent pots of money, on their case. Because it all amounts to a big zero if some judge with a big ego presses the pause-button on the whole thing, indefinitely. Getting such stay-orders vacated is a huge uphill task, for procedural reasons and because of the huge hardships that litigants face in approaching High Courts and Supreme Court, because they are hundreds or thousands of kilometres away. Litigants and well-meaning lawyers are reduced to tears of helplessness. Like  ·  Comment  ·  Share   ...

India's judiciary comes with a cursed legacy -- 32 million pending cases based on British-era laws like IPC and CrPC. In the eyes of judiciary, Indians are not citizens, but subjects, to be held captive with jurisprudence based on imperialism. The backlog of cases is a huge mess created by lawyers taking stay orders and tareekh pe tareekh, and judges giving it indiscriminately. The language and culture of our jurisprudence is Latin; it is so alien to India's culture that no o rdinary Indian citizen can understand it. Appointments to the higher judiciary are done by a cabal, with a level of mystery resembling appointment of the Pope in Vatican. It is almost as if judiciary is not an organ of India's democratic governance, but an alien thing transplanted from a European mummy. Not only is judiciary arbitrary and rampantly corrupt, but case laws themselves have been distorted by judgments given for money or favours. The question arises: Can this distorted, defor...