Slow justice contradicts India’s democratic strengths: PM
NEW DELHI, March 27: India’s legal and judicial system reflects “great contradiction”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday urging that the justice delivery mechanism needed to be expedited to strengthen the country’s democratic roots.
“The Indian legal and judicial system is one of the solid pillars of our democracy... Our government attaches great importance to the legal empowerment of the common man,” Manmohan Singh said, addressing a day-long national convention of Law, Justice and the Common Man.
The Prime Minister said democracy held “little meaning for the common man” unless he or she is able to secure basic rights and gain easy access to speedy justice.
“The Indian legal and judicial system in some sense reflects great contradiction Our democracy and legal system have strengths that are admired all over the world. We have a free press, a true independent judiciary and independent institutions like the Election Commission and Comptroller and Auditor General of India, which underpin our democratic framework,” he said.
