2024-07-01 23:08:51
New Delhi : Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud on Saturday stated that the custom of evaluating judges to God is harmful as a result of the duty of judges is to work within the curiosity of the frequent folks. Addressing the regional convention of the Nationwide Judicial Academy in Kolkata, the CJI stated, “Usually we’re addressed as Honor or Lordship or Ladyship. When folks name the courtroom a temple of justice, there’s a massive hazard in it. There’s a massive hazard that we think about ourselves God sitting in these temples.” The CJI stated that when he’s informed that the courtroom is a temple of justice, he’s unable to say something as a result of temple implies that the choose is the place of God. He stated, “Moderately I want to say that the job of judges is to serve the folks. And whenever you see your self as an individual whose job is to serve the folks, then you’ll develop a way of empathy in direction of others and a way of doing justice with out prejudice.”
He stated that even whereas saying a sentence in a felony case, the choose does so with sensitivity as a result of in the end a human being is being sentenced. CJI Chandrachud stated, ‘That’s the reason I imagine that these ideas of constitutional morality are necessary – not just for the judges of the Supreme Court docket or Excessive Court docket but in addition for the district degree judges as a result of the primary contact of the frequent folks with the judiciary begins with the judicial system of the district.’
He additionally harassed the significance of know-how within the functioning of the judiciary. In keeping with CJI Chandrachud, language is the largest barrier in accessing and understanding judgments by frequent folks. He stated, ‘Expertise can present options to some issues. Most judgments are written in English. Expertise has enabled us to translate them. We’re translating 51,000 judgments into different languages.’