Women Need To Be Respected More Than They Are To Be Worshipped: Delhi High Court Chief Justice DK Upadhyay

Delhi High Court's Chief Justice, Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay, on Tuesday said that women need to be respected more than they are to be worshiped. Chief Justice Upadhyay was speaking in an event organized by Delhi State Legal Services Authority to celebrate the International Women's Day at S Block auditorium of the Delhi High Court. The reason is that whatever has undergone in these 2000 years in this society, I carry this baggage with me, and therefore with the changing society, with the changing terms in the society, if you have to reach out to the women and remove the gender related inequalities and other kinds of injustices, we need to shun whatever baggage we carry, baggage of 2000 years behind our own growth.” Chief Justice Upadhyay said that even though injustices against women are prevalent in the society and keep on happening in our presence, we remain, many a times, in a denial mode. “So on this occasion, while expressing my happiness to be part of this function today in the celebration of International Women's Day and also complimenting the Delhi state Legal Services Authority to have undertaken so many projects, I must compliment, congratulate and wish that the new project initiated by Delhi state Legal Services Authority virangana and vaani shall go a long way with the help of all those who are associated with the legal services in the state of Delhi,” he concluded.