Pairokar

 By  Utkarsh Pandey, Advocate The provision of open-court hearing is provided in every democratic justice system in the world. It ensures that transparency is maintained in the court by letting the people know how effective the justice system is working. In India also Section 153 B of the Civil Procedure Code says that ‘the place in which any Civil Court is held for the purpose of trying any suit shall be deemed to be an open court, to which the public generally may have access so far as the same can conveniently contain them. Provided that the presiding Judge may, if he thinks fit, order at any stage of enquiry into trial of any particular case, that the public generally, or any particular person, shall not have any access to, or be or remain in, the room or building used by the Court.’ Likewise, Section 327 of Criminal ProcedureCode stipulates that ‘the place in which any criminal Court is held for the purpose of inquiring into or trying an offence shall be deemed to be an o...

    Recently, a TV journalist asked former CJI Ranjan Gogoi why did he not go to court when a lady employee of the court levelled allegations against him, which he thought to be false?? Without batting an eyelid, he replied that who would go to the court to face further harassment? In a way, he echoed the sentiments of millions of people of the country about the Indian judicial system. At a time when algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have brought about inconceivable changes in the field of science, technology, medicine, art, architecture, transportation, communication, war and weaponry or other areas that we can think of, how long law and legal field will remain untouched of it? Genome technology is out to achieve what was being mentioned in myths. When men and women of extraordinary physical and mental strength can be had with the help of technology guided by AI, that too without the consummation of men and women, then why no efforts are being made to increas...

                   The suzerainty of Chanakya- Chandragupta: Invaders to Bite Dust    Legendary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar aka Veer Savarkar was not only a revolutionary history maker for which he will always be remembered by posterity but was also a historian of great perspicacity. His book on ‘Indian War of Independence of 1857’ has already acquired the status of a classical book. His other book ‘Six Glorious Epochs of History’ is, without doubt, an eye-opener for all those who want to understand the history of India from the time of Chanakya-Chandragupta Maurya till almost to the end of the British Rule. Veer Savarkar himself has elucidated in this book that ‘there are hundreds of glorious epochs in the history of our nation which have undergone through the tests of poetic exuberance, music, prowess, affluence, the height of philosophy and depth of theology and many other criteria’. However, h...

Parmanand Pandey Supreme Court Judge S Abdul Nazeer must be complimented for having spoken his mind about throwing the colonial legal system by adopting ancient Indian jurisprudence.  We have seen that most of our lawyers and the judges are so obsessed with the western legal system that they even refuse to see that it is full of flaws, and no one can expect to get real justice. A journalist friend of mine, who can legitimately be called a veteran, says that the present judicial system, which we have borrowed from colonial rulers clearly favours the rich and moneyed people. It also ingrains the idea of sycophancy and subservience.  He says that such is the state of affairs of justice in our country that frequent use of ‘My Lord or Your Ladyship’ is considered to be the good courtcraft. The limit of the imbecility of the Advocates, particularly of the so-called Seniors, is seen to be believed. Even if their cases are dismissed at the threshold, they bow down their head by...

    The face of journalism has undergone a cataclysmic change in the last thirty years, The credit must be given to the technology, particularly to Google. Pre-Google journalism was slow but more credible, demanding and labour intensive but post-Google journalism is fast-paced but not so credible and requires much less labour. Earlier one had to wait for almost a day to get the newspapers, which often carried stale news, but one gets the update at every minute. In India, for some 35 years ago, the only electronic media that we had were the government-controlled All-India Radio and Doordarshan. But when the doors were opened for private channels, it was the second phase of the revolution. However, after the advent of the Internet and Google, there is hardly any need for newspapers or even Television Channels because one carries the gadget of news in one’s own pocket in the form of a cell phone. Not only news but views of different types are available on th...