The Brave Pedestrian

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...

Is justice only possible with ancient latin phrases? Legal expressions like “quo warranto” remind you of childish Harry Potter magic-spells like “Excrucio” and “Expecto Patronum”. Isn’t it possible to help the common man say the same thing in simple English, Hindi & local languages? Heavy court language bedazzles the common man, making him dependent on lawyers. It also allows judges to give self-contradictory and arbitrary orders & judgments, and tell the common man, “You won’t understand. Don’t ever try!” Krishnaraj Rao 9821588114 Mumbai