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COMMENTING ON HC OBSERVATIONS It refers to strong reaction of Union government and other legal-experts on observations of Justice SN Srivastava of UP High Court about taking Bhagwad Gita as Rashtriya Dharma Granth. Controversies and opinion-difference apart, how far is it fair to adopt dual standards in respect of comments made on judicial comments of higher courts? If some observation/judgement suits government-policy or thinking, then commenting adversely is taken as disrespect to judicial system. But in present case, Union Law Minister has advised to ‘ignore’ comments made by Justice SN Srivastava. It should be made clear if advice for ignoring a judicial comment is contempt or not? Under existing system, Union Law Minister would better opt to file a writ before a Division Bench objecting the remarks rather than advising commoners to ignore judicial comments. However present episode obviously reflects the fact that judges are also normal human-beings having their personal ideologies reflected in their behaviour as judge. Therefore media and commoners should have complete freedom to comment on working of judges of higher courts in the manner Union Law Minister has done presently. Posted by subhashmadhu on Tuesday Sep 11 reply Comments |
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