Judiciary, as we all know, is one of the three organs of a state. This is not to resort to comparing or contrasting postures of these State organs that matter most. What actually matters in theoretical terms is the cohesion and understanding among them for the purpose of general good. After all we call our State a Welfare State. It means that the objective of the Government is to provide more and more facilities to the people in a systematic manner.
The Judiciary has very important role to play. In recent years the role of the judiciary has increased manifold. It is not only the source of justice for the people but it is also a watch dog over how the State is using its powers to bring more comforts to the people. Day in and day out, the High Court has been receiving PILs and it is obliged to take these up. In order to reduce the burden on higher judicial units and also to speed up disposal of pending cases, the High Court had issued a document detailing the tasks for the junior judicial functionaries that would be helpful in disposing of cases as early as possible. These suggestions were conveyed to the junior judiciary for implementation forthwith. The High Court has noted with regret that the junior judicial officers and subordinate judiciary pays only scant attention to the instructions issued by the High Court. It sounds so funny that not only the State functionaries have been treating the orders of the High Court almost casually even the subordinate judiciary too goes along the same pattern of behavior.
This is a serious situation. The High Court wants the junior courts to list the cases in a systematic manner for the convenience of the litigants. Its team conducted some inspection and found that the instructions of the High Court in regard to listing the cases and other suggestions were not carried out. Registrar General said that all the Presiding Officers of the subordinate courts are enjoined upon to list reasonable number of cases on each working day so that entire official time is utilized properly. This is very fair and there seems nothing that should make the subordinate courts dilly-dally the instruction for implementation. The High Court can take many corrective measures if it finds necessary to do so. But, we are sanguine that things will not come to that pass and every functionary of the judiciary will fully understand his or her responsibility towards the people in general. The judiciary has to be the model of discipline.
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