Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Saturday said the confidence of citizens in the due process of law and the protection of liberty rests in the judiciary which is "guardians of liberties".
Delivering a lecture here, the CJI emphasized through the lives of the members of the bar, who fearlessly espouse those causes, 바카라the flame of liberty burns bright even today바카라.
Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Saturday said the confidence of citizens in the due process of law and the protection of liberty rests in the judiciary which is "guardians of liberties".
Delivering a lecture here, the CJI emphasized through the lives of the members of the bar, who fearlessly espouse those causes, 바카라the flame of liberty burns bright even today바카라.
Delivering the Ashok H Desai memorial lecture at the Y B Chavan Center here, he referred to a theft case where a man would have spent 18 years in jail had the SC not intervened to say "trust us to be guardians of the liberties of our citizens".
The event was organised by the Bombay Bar Association.
바카라Yesterday in a seemingly innocuous case, where an accused was sentenced to two years of imprisonment in sessions trial for theft of electricity, the trial judge forgot to say that the sentences will run concurrently.
"So then the consequence was that this person who had stolen electricity equipment like poles would have to suffer 18 years of imprisonment, only because the trial court didn't direct that the sentences would run concurrently,바카라 CJI Chandrachud said.
A bench led by CJI Chandrachud on Friday dealt with a plea of a man from Uttar Pradesh called Iqram who was to suffer a jail term of 18 years in nine minor cases of theft of electrical equipment of the state electricity department.
The top court set aside an Allahabad High Court order and directed that Iqram's jail term of two years each in nine cases would run concurrently instead of successively. It was irked that neither the trial court nor the high court took note of the 바카라miscarriage of justice바카라 and set things right.
Referring to the case, the CJI on Saturday said the high court said, 바카라sorry we can't do anything at all, because the trial judge hasn't, in terms of section 427 of the CrPc directive, said that the sentences would run concurrently바카라.
바카라We had to intervene yesterday, in a seemingly innocuous case of a simple citizen of the nation. The point which we make is sermonising apart, trust us to be guardians of the liberties of our citizens,바카라 he added.
The CJI further said there is no case which is 바카라small enough, or big enough바카라 for every court in the nation, be it the district judiciary, the High Court, or the Supreme Court, "because it is in us that the confidence of the citizens, in the due process of law and the protection of liberty, rests바카라.
Talking about the subject of the lecture, the chief justice said it is true that both law and morality play a vital role in channelling our behaviour.
바카라As all of you might well be aware, the law is a definite body of rules enacted and enforced by the state. The legal rules regulate human conduct by written rules, penalties and officials to interpret the laws,바카라 he said.
The CJI added that while law regulates external relations, morality governs our inner lives and motivations and 바카라morality, in that sense, appeals to our conscience and influences the way we behave바카라.
-With PTI Input