For SC, there aren’t any massive or small instances; each matter is vital: CJI DY Chandrachud 

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NEW DELHI: CJI DY Chandrachud on Saturday mentioned that for SC which serves the world’s most populous democracy, there aren’t any massive or small instances as each matter is vital. 

Speaking at an occasion organised by the Supreme Court of India to commemorate its 73rd institution, CJI DY Chandrachud mentioned that courtroom whereas attending such features performs constitutional duties, obligations and features. 

“For the court, there are no big or small cases, every matter is important because it’s in the seemingly small and routine matters involving our citizens that issues of constitutional and jurisprudential importance emerge. In attending to such grievances, the court performs a plain constitutional duty, a plain constitutional obligation and a plain constitutional function. SC serves the world’s most populous democracy and in true aspect the people’s court as it is a collective heritage of people of India,” the CJI mentioned.

Taking satisfaction in SC not solely rising as a robust proponent of gender equality but in addition making certain linkage of prison justice administration inside the framework of human rights, he mentioned, “Our court has emerged as a strong proponent of gender equality whether it has to be in the interpretation of laws of inheritance or securing entry of women in the armed forces. The court has also ensured that criminal justice administration is not delinked from the framework of human rights. While the death penalty has been upheld to be legal and constitutional, the SC has laid down various mitigating and aggravating circumstances that the judge should take into account before awarding the sentence of death. This ensures fairness in the process. Procedural innovations, open court hearings in views arising out of death penalty cases or psychiatric assessment of death row convicts has a humanising influence on the law.”

“In the recent budget, GOI has announced a provision of Rs 7,000 crore for phase 3 of the eCourts project. This will help to enhance the accessibility of judicial institutions and improve the efficiency of the justice delivery system in India. Such endeavours will ensure that the court truly reaches out to every citizen of our country. During CoVID 19 pandemic, SC adopted innovative technical solutions to reach out to the people by adopting video conferencing of court proceedings. During the period b/w 23 March 2020 and October 31, 2022, SC alone heard 3.37 lakh cases through video conferencing. We updated our VC structure in courtrooms at meta scale and we are continuing to use such technological infrastructure to allow the hybrid mode of court hearings that allows parties to join court proceedings from any part of the world online,” the CJI mentioned. 

“Court’s workload through the preliminary years was a fraction of what we witness right now. In the annual report of 2005-06, one of many former Justice BP Singh recounts that when he visited the courtroom for the primary time in 1956, the proceedings have been solemn and just about boring and solely 5/6 legal professionals have been current. Over the years, SC’s workload has elevated. Every day now SC now has a whole bunch of instances in its docket. Judges of SC and workers of the registry have put up great work to make sure the speedy disposal of instances. Just to offer you a easy sampling, within the final 3 months, 12108 instances have been filed earlier than SC and 12471 instances have been disposed of,” he added. 

NEW DELHI: CJI DY Chandrachud on Saturday mentioned that for SC which serves the world’s most populous democracy, there aren’t any massive or small instances as each matter is vital. 

Speaking at an occasion organised by the Supreme Court of India to commemorate its 73rd institution, CJI DY Chandrachud mentioned that courtroom whereas attending such features performs constitutional duties, obligations and features. 

“For the court, there are no big or small cases, every matter is important because it’s in the seemingly small and routine matters involving our citizens that issues of constitutional and jurisprudential importance emerge. In attending to such grievances, the court performs a plain constitutional duty, a plain constitutional obligation and a plain constitutional function. SC serves the world’s most populous democracy and in true aspect the people’s court as it is a collective heritage of people of India,” the CJI mentioned.

Taking satisfaction in SC not solely rising as a robust proponent of gender equality but in addition making certain linkage of prison justice administration inside the framework of human rights, he mentioned, “Our court has emerged as a strong proponent of gender equality whether it has to be in the interpretation of laws of inheritance or securing entry of women in the armed forces. The court has also ensured that criminal justice administration is not delinked from the framework of human rights. While the death penalty has been upheld to be legal and constitutional, the SC has laid down various mitigating and aggravating circumstances that the judge should take into account before awarding the sentence of death. This ensures fairness in the process. Procedural innovations, open court hearings in views arising out of death penalty cases or psychiatric assessment of death row convicts has a humanising influence on the law.”

“In the recent budget, GOI has announced a provision of Rs 7,000 crore for phase 3 of the eCourts project. This will help to enhance the accessibility of judicial institutions and improve the efficiency of the justice delivery system in India. Such endeavours will ensure that the court truly reaches out to every citizen of our country. During CoVID 19 pandemic, SC adopted innovative technical solutions to reach out to the people by adopting video conferencing of court proceedings. During the period b/w 23 March 2020 and October 31, 2022, SC alone heard 3.37 lakh cases through video conferencing. We updated our VC structure in courtrooms at meta scale and we are continuing to use such technological infrastructure to allow the hybrid mode of court hearings that allows parties to join court proceedings from any part of the world online,” the CJI mentioned. 

“Court’s workload through the preliminary years was a fraction of what we witness right now. In the annual report of 2005-06, one of many former Justice BP Singh recounts that when he visited the courtroom for the primary time in 1956, the proceedings have been solemn and just about boring and solely 5/6 legal professionals have been current. Over the years, SC’s workload has elevated. Every day now SC now has a whole bunch of instances in its docket. Judges of SC and workers of the registry have put up great work to make sure the speedy disposal of instances. Just to offer you a easy sampling, within the final 3 months, 12108 instances have been filed earlier than SC and 12471 instances have been disposed of,” he added.