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True justice resides in district courts: CJI Surya Kant

Share FacebookTwitterWhatsAppPinterestLinkedinCopy URLTelegramEmailTumblrReddItPrintKoo NEW DELHI, Jan 19: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Monday said “true justice” resides in grassroots-level courts and urged the high courts as well as the Supreme Court to “incentivise” young lawyers to practise in the district courts. The CJI lamented the “misbranding” of district courts as “lower courts” in the country and asserted that being an “important organ of an independent judiciary”, these courts play a more important role than the appellate fora. “Let us always remember that justice does not primarily reside in the appellate forums only.

True justice resides in district courts: CJI Surya Kant

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Key Highlights

  • True justice resides only at the grassroots-level courts because the ordinary citizen will have the first encounter for the enforcement of his right only in the district courts,” he said.
  • “The district courts are the places where law becomes real, immediate, and it acquires the shape of a human approach.
  • If a litigant, a consumer of justice is satisfactorily dealt with in this primary health centre, I am quite sure he will not be required to be shifted to bigger hospitals.
  • Definitely, he will not be required to go to a trauma centre,” the CJI added.
  • Justice Kant was speaking at an event organised by the Bar Council of Delhi to felicitate him on taking oath as the 53rd CJI.
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