NEW DELHI: After more than five years as minister for law and justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad leaves a legacy for successor Kiren Rijiju that began with enactment of the controversial National Judicial Appointments Commission and covered a spectrum including Ayodhya and Rafale cases.
Prasad’s tenure, from July, 2016 to July, 2021 in addition to holding the portfolio from May 2014 till November 2014, was second only to legendary senior advocate Ashok Sen, who was law minister from May 1957 till January 1966. Prasad would now surely resume his lucrative practice in the court after ministership.
Prasad’s innings as law minister under PM Narendra Modi in 2014 began with the signature reform legislation in NJAC, which intended to replace the collegium system of judges selecting candidates for appointment as judges, a system which had been frowned upon by both judiciary and lawyers as well as public as opaque though largely considered as a process independent of the executive.
UPDATED: July 8, 2021 10:13 IST
A file photo of the Supreme Court. More than 3.9 crore cases in total are before various courts in the country
The Supreme Court on Wednesday took exception to the delay in responses being filed by states, including Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, regarding steps to increase judge strength and dispose of pending cases. If left to the Union of India and the states, no work would happen at the Supreme Court. The government is the largest litigant and in every matter, with few exceptions, there is an application for time, said a bench of Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice MR Shah.
DNA Legal Tips: Reducing the âTareeksâ in Execution Proceedings - A commendable effort by the Supreme Court
The issue of pendency of execution has been of concern for the judiciary since colonial times.
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Updated: Jun 28, 2021, 11:14 AM IST
We have all heard the famous line from the movie Damini in which Sunny Deol echoes the famous dialogue
“Tareek
Pe
Tareek”. This dialogue is a general reflection of public perception of the justice delivery system in India. It highlights an underlying issue of pendency of cases and delay. The National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), a real time dashboard run by the National Informatics Center (NIC), highlights that currently there are 3,89,41,148 cases pending in the lower judiciary. Among them 1,03,81,615 are civil cases and the remaining are criminal cases. These numbers create a huge backlog of cases and prevent access to justice. It also deters people to proactively engage or benefit from the justice system.
To foster ease of land property registration, govt plans to link e-courts with land records
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Last Updated: Jun 27, 2021, 01:31 PM IST
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The pilot project on linking of e-Court with land records and registration database has been successfully completed in Maharashtra along with Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and soon it will be launched across the country.
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The government feels that in the long run it will reduce dubious transactions, help in dispute containment and also reduce clogging of the court s system.
Seeking to help bonafide buyers know whether the land they plan to buy is under any legal dispute, the government plans to link e-courts with land records and registration
Centre Plans E-Courts- Land Records Linking To Ease Property Registration Centre Plans E-Courts- Land Records Linking To Ease Property Registration E-Courts- Land Records Linking: The pilot project on linking of e-Court with land records and registration database has been successfully completed in Maharashtra along with Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and soon it will be launched across the country.
E-Courts- Land Records Linking will reduce dubious transactions, Centre said. (Representational)
New Delhi:
Seeking to help bonafide buyers know whether the land they plan to buy is under any legal dispute, the government plans to link e-courts with land records and registration database.