Flagging misconduct by immoderate judges, Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai said connected Saturday (September 20, 2025) that judges and judicial officers indispensable workout their powerfulness with utmost humility and responsibility.
The Chief Justice was speaking astatine the 10th All India Conference of the Central Administrative Tribunal here.
Citing a caller quality study connected a High Court justice reprimanding a young lawyer successful court, the Chief Justice said judges indispensable judge that they arsenic good arsenic the lawyers are similar “two wheels of the aureate chariot of justice”. No 1 is superior oregon inferior. “I won’t sanction the justice nor the High Court... but due to the fact that of 1 judge, a young lawyer was truthful browbeaten that helium became unconscious successful the court..... Unless some judges and lawyers enactment together, the instauration of medication of justness that exists for the citizens of the country cannot relation properly,” helium said. Senior lawyers excessively were ill-treated by immoderate judges, judicial officers and quasi-judicial officers, the Chief Justice said.
He said determination is discontent successful the Bar owing to the conduct of immoderate judges. Judicial officers, beryllium judges oregon members of tribunals, wield immense power, which they should transportation with utmost humility and responsibility, the Chief Justice said.
Speaking connected the tribunals, helium pointed retired that contempt commendable disposal rates, pendency successful administrative tribunals remains a important concern, arsenic it is truthful adjacent with the courts. Another persistent occupation successful this respect is the multiplicity of appeals that originate from the tribunals’ decisions, helium said.
‘Time to introspect’
The Chief Justice besides pointed retired however non-judicial members successful tribunals debar passing judgments against the government, and urged them to bespeak connected it. “....nowadays you don’t cognize what you accidental and what comes successful the societal media but arsenic a judge, I have personally noticed that immoderate of the judges coming from the administration, they bash not hide that they are from administration, and they debar passing any order that would beryllium against the government,” helium said.
Union Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, who was contiguous astatine the conference, said specified events, with their in-depth discussions connected digitisation of judicial processes, innovations successful administrative justness system, and connected ensuring transparent and accessible justice, were a important measurement towards reforms successful the sector.
Others who attended the league were Minister of State (Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions) Jitendra Singh, Delhi High Court Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, and respective judges and lawyers from the Supreme Court, High Courts, State Administrative Tribunals, and the GST Tribunal.
