A Shadow Supreme Court – No Way

A peculiar scenario has emerged in India, in which anyone with a tongue doesn’t stop lashing it against the Constitutional institutions. If anyone has any serious issue with the allegedly inappropriate roster for assignment of cases, he should either seek remedy against particular judgments pronounced by any particular Judge or to challenge the Chief Justice of India in the capacity of the Master of Roster before the Supreme Court itself. Some of the unending homilies addressed in the media to the Supreme Court by the activists include suggestions to handle ongoing contempt cases in a particular manner; to re-define the law related to floor-tests to prove majority in legislatures; to ignore official claims on migrant labour etc. The Supreme Court has often been accused of not acting with urgency to protect citizens from perceived executive excesses; and the Chief Justice of India exercising his power questionably to constitute benches, allocate cases in a manner that raises questions about the independence of the judiciary; and so on. It is much more important and critical today to launch effective welfare measures for the young and emerging legal fraternity rather than launching ideological diatribes against the Supreme Court judgments, procedures, and individual judges in the media, which prove hollow in the absence of any worthwhile legal recourse to follow up such issues to their logical conclusion.