Andhra Pradesh

Apex court’s contribution lauded

VISAKHAPATNAM: Noted lawyer and Bar Council of India former Chairman D.V. Subba Rao has praised the Supreme Court for its yeoman service in the last 60 years of independence in upholding the rule of law and strengthening democracy. “The judiciary has stepped in where others have failed”.

Delivering a lecture “India at sixty”, under the auspices of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) in the city on Wendnesday, he said the Apex Court could better be compared with a super speciality hospital where it has a “PIL (public interest litigation) for every ill” in the society whether it is education policy, environment protection, laying of roads, felling of trees, coastal regulation, allotment of petrol pumps, access to justice for poor and electoral reforms.

The Supreme Court had contributed significantly for improving the quality of public life and to weed out the menace of criminalisation of politics, he said adding that though there could be some overstepping or aberrations here and there the initiatives of the highest judicial body in the country were much necessary, he said.

Andhra University Officer on Special Duty R. Venkata Rao said the Indian Constitution had weathered many storms mainly due to judicial activism.

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