President Pranab Mukherjee today pitched for speedy and affordable justice to all. Speaking at the 150th foundation day of the Allahabad High Court today, Mr. Mukherjee also expressed concern over pendency of cases. He said, sanctioned posts in the higher judiciary need to filled quickly.
Chief Justice of India T S Thakur said that judiciary is facing credibility problem today and this is major challenge for us.
The Allahabad High Court is celebrating its 150th foundation day today. Chief Justice of India, TS Thakur and Union Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda are also among the dignitaries who attended the function. Justice Thakur last evening inaugurated the dedicated the Digitization Centre of the High Court.
He said justice should be a “living reality”. President also emphasized for up-gradation of judicial infrastructure and modernization of courts and said this would also help in speedy disposal of cases and litigants will also get benefited. Mr. Mukherjee also underlined role of Information technology in court working and appealed to judiciary to move forward in the direction of E-Courts. He hoped that with the help of Information Technology court would be connected with National Judicial Data Grid in future. He said unnecessary postponement of cases should be avoided and informed the august gathering that government is also working on National Litigation Policy to avoid unnecessary litigation.
Speaking on this occasion Chief Justice of India T.S Thakur highlighted the challenges of Judiciary and said these challenges are from both outside and within. He said today judiciary is facing crisis of credibility and it is the time to see challenges within.
Addressing the august gathering Union Law Minister D.V.Sadanand Gowda said that success of democracy also depends on strong and impartial judicial system. State governor Ram Naik referred the land mark judgments of Allahabad High court in past and said the judgment of this court has left their impact not only in the state but across the country .Participating in today event chief minister Akhilesh Yadav reiterated his government commitment to provide all support for the improvement of infrastructure high court and lower courts in the state. He also underlined the need for judicial work should be conducted in public language.
On this occasion several Supreme Court judges, Chief justice of various High Courts, Judges of various other courts, West Bengal Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi, Former Union Law Minister Shanti Bhushan were also present.
Postal department will release a postage stamp and a Souvenir is being brought out by the High court. Several political and legal luminaries were part of this historic court which began its journey from March 1866 from Agra and later shifted to Allahabad in 1869..The Court has also a bench in Lucknow.