Justice T S Thakur Justice T S ThakurTaking on the Centre for sitting over appointments of High Court judges, Chief Justice of India TS Thakur on Saturday asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s attitude was lackadaisical from the very issue of filling vacancies to providing adequate infrastructure. Stating that there are 500 judges’ posts lying vacant in High Courts, Thakur said that courtrooms are lying vacant without judges. Today a situation has come that when no retired Supreme Court judge wants to head the Tribunal. Addressing a joint conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of High Courts earlier in April, Justice Thakur had made an emotional plea to the government to help upgrade judicial infrastructure and start addressing the glaring problem of shortage of judges. The CJI broke down in front of the Prime Minister and said in a choked voice that he regretted “inaction” on the government’s part in strengthening judicial infrastructure and increasing the judge-population ratio to tackle the “avalanche” of cases.

Source: Indian Express November 26, 2016 08:09 UTC