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“Judicial activism result of people’s unhappiness”

HYDERABAD: Justice Goda Raghuram, Judge, A. P. High Court, said here on Friday that the judiciary could not interfere with macro-level aberrations of governance and if it did so, it was certainly not a democracy.

Delivering a lecture on ‘judicial activism’, organised by Manthan, a forum for public discourse, here on Friday, Justice Raghuram said judicial activism was the result of people’s unhappiness in a democracy.

However, it was unfortunate that people agitated against court judgments. This was despite a recognition that judiciary was the last faith of people.

He regretted the woefully inadequate number judicial officers and said their number from the Chief Justice of India to a Munsif Magistrate in the remotest part of the country was only 14,000.

The governments hardly made any attempt to step up their selection as they had other priorities. When it came to their selection, jurisprudential abilities took the back seat.

They were selected on the basis of their specialisation in different branches of law.

Referring to the constant tussle between the three organs of democracy to overstep their respective jurisdiction, Justice Raghuram said it was a result of each of them trying to maximise its powers.

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