CJI: Judiciary has to protect rights
Rejecting charges of overreach by the Supreme Court in the context of dance bar case, outgoing Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Thursday said it was the duty of the judiciary to protect the constitutional rights rights of people.
There was no friction between judiciary and the executive and there was no over-reaching by the courts, whose duty it was to tell the executive to do its work, he said.
“Well, the reaction to that is simple. That we are doing our job. Legislature is doing its job, the executive is doing its own job. What was fair to me, something which was against the constitutional rights of the people, is not, is certainly not, the jurisdiction of the legislature or the executive.
“If the constitutional rights of the people have been affected, it is the duty of the judiciary to see that they are duly protected,” Justice Kabir told reporters as he left the courts on his last day as CJI.
He was asked about the criticism that judiciary was over-reaching into the domain of the executive and that after the judgement in the Mumbai dance bar girls case there was criticism in the Maharashtra Assembly that if the Supreme Court judges want to run the country let them be elected.
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