Shut tribunals if you cannot staff them: SC
Hindustan TimesThe Union government should abolish all tribunals if the judiciary is compelled to make appointments in these bodies to keep them alive, the Supreme Court said on Friday as it reproached the Union government for creating an “imbroglio” over functioning of the tribunals and making “citizens suffer in the bargain”. A bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and MM Sundresh called it “very unfortunate” that the Supreme Court is being called on to fill vacancies in tribunals, which is the primary job of the government that has framed legislations and rules for these forums. Lekhi was representing the Centre in a suo motu case registered by the top court on account of “inaction of the government” in appointing members of the consumer courts and providing adequate infrastructure. The very intent of the law is defeated in this process.” During the hearing, senior counsel Gopal Sankaranarayanan, assisting the bench as amicus curiae, further drew the attention of the bench on the government’s enactment of the Tribunal Reforms Act, 2021, in violation of the Supreme Court judgment in the Madras Bar Association case in July. The court took note that the challenge to the 2021 law is pending before a different bench in the top court, but not before expressing its displeasure with regard to how the government brought back the very same provisions for administration of tribunals in the new law that were struck down by the Supreme Court merely a few months ago.
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