Don't destroy, weaken the system but transform it: CJI Dipak Misra
India TV NewsAsserting that the indian judiciary will resist any attempt to weaken the institution, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on Wednesday said that instead of attacking and destroying a system, efforts should be made to transform and reform it. "There may be some elements who try to weaken the institution, but the judiciary will refuse to succumb," the CJI said while speaking at the Independence Day function organised in the Supreme Court by the Supreme Court Bar Association on Wednesday. Referring to the mention of "polity of identity" in Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's speech at the event, Chief Justice Misra said: "I am happy that the Law Minister has talked about the identity of the citizens. Referring to the different phases of development over last seven decades, the Law Minister said initially it was a "polity of want, then came polity of identity and now we have polity of aspiration and hope".
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