Mumbai 28th December,2024 (TGN) :India is world’s largest democracy, having slowest judiciary in the world with a backlog of over 5 crore cases in various courts of India as on December 2023. It is the dire necessity of Indian public that they should get a timely justice within reasonable time frame for which the onus lies on Indian Government. The Govt. should take all the necessary required steps to mitigate the hardship of common men like increasing number of judges in various courts, the number of maximum hearings should be cut down to say 4 per case and passing of orders within a fixed time frame. No priority of hearings should be given to politicians & VIPs but they should be considered at par with the general public, who deserve speedy delivery of justice, stated Bhagwanji Bhai Raiyani, Chairman of Forum For Fast Justice.
Forum for Fast Justice ( Forum) is a trust registered in Mumbai in 2008, is the only kind of NGO in the country, rather in the world. It has presence in 23 states of India, has set up 115 centers, namely Societies for Fast Justice, affiliated to the Delhi-based National Federation of Societies for Fast Justice.
Mr. Raiyani further stated that “We need to insist on the Union Government for the following points for speedy disposal of cases & Quick justice to the Indian Public”:
To increase judges strength as directed by Supreme Court in 2002 judgment from 10.50 to 50 judges per million population.
To honour the 16 points programme promised in BJP 2014 election manifesto to fast tract judiciary, which has been so far totally neglected.
Speedy and time bound disposal of over 5 crore cases pending in Indian Courts as on December 2023.
To save the suffering of crores of families, financially and mentally broken, making judiciary a fast moving, time bound vehicle. After all, “Justice delayed is justice denied”.
To resolve frequent conflicts with the higher judiciary in a timely manner.
The impact of poor justice delivery system results into:
(i) Corruption and degrading Moral standards .
(ii) Attitude develops for swallowing injustice.
(iii) Killing the spirit of fighting for justice.
(iv) Criminals in Society emboldened.
(v) Criminals in politics prosper.
(vi) Governance becomes inefficient and unfriendly.
(vii) Corruption in private and public sector flourishes.
(viii) Judges tempt to become corrupt.
(ix) A crop of middlemen operators conduct rampant corruption.
(x) Investment climate gets adversely affected.
(xi) Environmental pollution increases.
(xii) Lawyers tend to become exploitative.
(xiii) Billions of productive man-hours wasted.
(xiv) Democratic values suffer.
(xv) Nation losing image at the international level.
(xvi) Growth suffers: Country ruins.
(xvii) Encourages human rights violations.
(xviii) Rights of women, children, prisoners and socially backwards not protected.
Trustee Rajendra Thakkar and Trustee Ashish Mehta informed that they have organized a Public Meeting on Judicial Reforms on 5th January, 2025 at Ambedkar Hall, Dadar, Mumbai, which will be addressed by the leading & prominent advocates.
