Law Minister urges CJI to ensure mechanism to monitor quick disposal of rape cases
| Date :08-Dec-2019 |
JODHPUR :
LAW Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday urged the Chief Justice of India and other senior judges to ensure that there is a mechanism to monitor quick disposal of rape cases, saying that the women of the country are under pain and distress and crying for justice. “I would urge the CJI and other senior judge that now there must be a mechanism to monitor the disposal of these cases so that India’s stature as a proud country governed by rule of law must be restored at the earliest,” Prasad said, and assured Government funding for it.
“The women of the country are under pain and distress. They are crying for justice,” he said. The Minister said there are 704 fast-track courts for heinous offences and others and the government is in the process of setting up 1,123 dedicated courts for POCSO and rape offences. “In the law relating to women violence, we have already laid down capital punishment and other severe punishment including completion of trial in two months time,” he added. He also said India’s judiciary, be it the Supreme Court, High Courts or subordinate courts, has upheld the principles of the rule of law.
But, he stressed, the need to attract more talent in subordinate judiciary. “We need to reflect more on having attraction of talent in our subordinate judiciary. We should have a good talent pool of judges. The time has come that we need to have greater induction of talent in the judiciary,” he said. The Minister was speaking at a function for inauguration of a new building of the Rajasthan High Court in Jodhpur.
Justice can never be instant: CJI
JODHPUR,
Dec 7 (PTI)
Against the backdrop of the Hyderabad rape-murder incident and gunning down of the four accused in an alleged encounter, Chief Justice of India S A Bobde on Saturday said justice can never be instant and loses its character when it becomes revenge. At the same time, he admitted that the recent events in the country have sparked off an old debate with new vigour, where there is no doubt that the criminal justice system must reconsider its position and attitude towards the time it takes to dispose of a case.
“But I don’t think justice can ever be or ought to be instant, and justice must never ever take the form of revenge. I believe justice loses its character of justice if it becomes revenge,” the CJI said during the inauguration of a new building of the Rajasthan High Court here.
The CJI’s remarks came a day after the police claimed that all the four accused in the rape and murder of a young veterinarian in Hyderabad were shot dead in “retaliatory” firing by the cops when two of the accused opened fire at them after snatching their weapons and tried to escape from the site where they had been taken for a reconstruction of events as part of the investigation.