: Judiciary must remain detached from political ideology to ensure independence #WorldNEWSAll Judiciary is the only pillar of our democracy which has by and large remained independent and that is what

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Judiciary must remain detached from political ideology to ensure independence #WorldNEWSAll
Judiciary is the only pillar of our democracy which has by and large remained independent and that is what is irking the government.
The central government and the judiciary, two of the three pillars of our democracy, appear to be on a collision course. Union law minister Kiran Rijiju has been unusually critical of the judiciary and has been attacking the criteria of selection of judges, long vacation enjoyed by the judges and is even critical of the highest court taking ‘trivial’ matters like bail hearings.
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, known for his integrity and impeccable reputation as a judge, is unlikely to be cowed down and has reacted by declaring that the Supreme Court shall not have vacation judges during the ensuing break.
By government’s own admission in Parliament last week, the arrears of cases are mounting and have touched a figure of almost five crore. During the pre-covid period about three crore cases were pending in various courts across the country.
Instead of paying attention to bringing down the number of pending cases, the law minister has chosen to attack the judiciary by alleging lack of transparency or opaque system of selection of judges at the level of Supreme Court.
Government is not only sitting tight over giving approval for dozens of recommendations for appointment of Supreme Court and high court judges, it is going slow both at the central and state level by not filling vacancies of thousands of judicial magistrates and district judges. A visit to any court in the country is enough to understand the mess created by shortage of judicial officers.
The law minister’s assertion that there was no transparency in the way recommendations were made by collegium comprising of the Chief Justice and four senior most judges of the highest court evidently stems from a desire to control the appointment of judges. Evidently the government would like to appoint judges who appear ‘friendly’ to the government.
There can be no bigger disaster for our democracy if the government gets to appoint judges of its choice. Judiciary is the only pillar of our democracy which has by and large remained independent and that is what is irking the government.
We have all seen how the present government has taken control of almost all the institutions whether it is appointment of governors, vice chancellors, election commissioners, directors of CBI and ED and various other key posts. Even large sections of media have been ‘tamed’ by the government.
It is a fact that the collegium system is not perfect and the highest court must find out ways to ensure more transparency. It is known that it rejects almost half of the recommendations sent by high court collegium without assigning any reason.

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