Merely including extra judges will not be the reply, you want good judges, the Chief Justice of India stated.

New Delhi:

The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a PIL that sought a path to the Centre and all states to double the variety of judges in subordinate judiciary and excessive courts to successfully sort out the pendency of instances, saying such “populist” and “simplistic” measures can’t be the answer.

“Adding more judges is not the answer,” a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha orally noticed, which prompted lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay to withdraw his PIL.

Merely including extra judges will not be the reply, you want good judges, the CJI stated.

The second Mr Upadhyay commenced his submissions, the bench stated that these populist measures and simplistic options had been unlikely to resolve the difficulty.

The CJI stated that the Allahabad High Court, which is unable to fill its present 160 sanctioned posts, ought to have 320 posts as per the PIL.

“It is difficult to fill the 160 seats in Allahabad High Court and you are asking for 320. Have you been to the Bombay High Court? Not even a single judge can be added there because there is no infrastructure. Adding more judges is not the answer,” the CJI stated, including that the lawyer should be able to pay the price of submitting such a petition with no detailed research on the topic.

The lawyer then referred to the report of the regulation fee to buttress his submissions that to cope with the pendency of round 5 crore instances within the nation, the judge-population ratio needs to be enhanced considerably.

He then referred to the occasion of the US the place the judge-population ratio is much better than in India.

“This kind of petition would not be entertained by either the UK or in the US Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court does not even hear lawyers on whether cases should be admitted. This is because of our system,” the CJI stated.

He requested the lawyer to perform a little research and file a recent plea on the shortage of judicial officers within the district judiciary.

“There are problems, but these simplistic things won’t be the solutions. When I was in Allahabad High Court, the then law minister had asked me to increase the judges to 25 per cent. I was like good lord, I cannot even fill the 160… in the Bombay High Court how many lawyers are willing to accept a judgeship. Merely adding more judges is not the answer, you need good judges,” the CJI stated.

The court docket permitted Upadhyay to withdraw the PIL with a liberty to file a recent one with correct analysis on “statistics on recruitment, vacancies, etc” within the decrease judiciary.

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