New Delhi : Chief Justice of India H. L. Dattu has urged the fellow judges not to be complacent but to be torch-bearers in a movement against pendency and delay of cases.
Justice Dattu, who was addressing a function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association on the occasion of ‘Law Day’ yesterday, lauded the Supreme Court for disposing off over 83,000 cases in 2014, the highest in a year since its inception.
“The loopholes of judicial delay and pendency could be plugged by adjusting, modifying and inventing new court procedures. A lasting solution to all the problems of pendency and delays is cooperation between the bar and bench and both have to work in tandem keeping the interest of litigant as of paramount importance,” he added.
Law day, a tradition which began in 1979 under the leadership of Dr. L M Singhvi, is celebrated each year to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India by the constituent assembly on November 26, 1949.
Starting this year, the Government of India has also declared this day as Constitution Day.
