When will the vacancies in judiciary be filled?
Legislature, executive and judiciary are three significant pillars of constitution. For democracy to work well, there has to be good coordination between all the three pillars. They have to balance and co-exist, along with complementing each other. This is the most important requirement. But in the recent times, one rarely sees any well-coordinated effort between them. This has led to unrest among judiciary as well. Thousands of jobs in lower courts are lying vacant across the country. This has led to delay in cases being concluded.
Supreme Court has been insisting that they be filled at the earliest but to no avail. Last week Supreme Court even expressed its displeasure over the vacancies not being filled up. This is not a good development. Many posts of judges in lower courts have not been filled up. Staff recruitments are also being delayed. Considering the increase in population, courts need to add more space to their infrastructure for quick disposal of cases. Courts need judges’ quarters to be built sooner than later. The Supreme Court and High Court have fixed a time frame for this work to be completed. SC has expressed extreme displeasure over the functioning of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya pertaining to this work.
Karnataka’s time will come on December 5. Kerala, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand states are also in the same boat. Across the lower courts, there are about 2,20,836 jobs in the country. About 5,133 posts are vacant till now. Supreme Court has drawn the attention of states regarding this sometime ago and directed them to submit a report on the work done so far regarding the matter. But nothing has worked.
Judiciary is not getting as much support and facilities as the other two pillars – Legislature and Executive – get. Supreme Court has been often begging the central government to fill the vacancies at the earliest. Few months ago, justice T S Thakore had shed tears before PM Modi at an event that was organized to inaugurate the conference of chief justices of High Court, along with CMs from the states. The population of the country has increased manifold. Undecided cases growing in numbers with every passing day. Since the post of justices are lying vacant, cases cannot be concluded. And this delay should not happen since this also causes delay in imparting justice to the aggrieved.
Judiciary seeks increase in the number of justices from 21,000 to 40,000. But the government, especially executive, isn’t responsing favourably is the main grouse. This has led to thousands of undertrials languishing in jails across the country. Their futures are dark now. When justice Thakore wept over this issue before the PM, Modi had assured resolution of the issue sooner than later. But nothing has moved from then to now.
Earlier, there were ten judges to every ten lakh people. Indian Law Commission had recommended that this ratio be increased to 50. Supreme Court had given concurrence over this matter and Parliamentary committee to had said yes to this. But none of this worked to meet a logical end. Now, every ten lakh people have only 15 judges to sort out their cases. By 1987, the required number was 40 judges per ten lakh. Now the population has grown manifold. Lower courts have 2.84 cases pending. Supreme and High Court put together this number comes up to 3.5 cr in all. Majority of the cases are awaiting hearing since the last five years. Thousands and lakhs of undertrials are waiting for the next date of their hearing. At times like this, the paralysed working style of executive is condemnable. Democracy cannot be upheld by ignoring judiciary. Hence the central government has to immediately attend to this issue as soon as possible.
Though the matter as grave that the Chief Justice of Supreme Court shed tears before the PM, nothing has worked. What does that mean? The centre is callous about the judiciary. If this continues, this will cast its shadow on the entire nation and systems that work within. Human rights would be violated because undertrials have to languish in the jail owing to no hearing of their case. The government needs to wake up sooner than later over this and fill up the posts of Judges in the courts, including high court. If this can be attended to, the future crises regarding this can be averted.
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A 99-run loss is unacceptable: Hayden blames batting horror
Ahmedabad (PTI): Gujarat Titans' batting coach Matthew Hayden was scathing about their 99-run defeat to Mumbai Indians, blaming a "horror" batting display and poor death bowling for the heavy loss in the IPL.
From being 44/3 in 5.5 overs, MI hammered 73 runs in the last four overs to post a challenging 199/5 here on Monday. In reply, GT were bundled out for 100.
"I expect our margins to be a lot smaller than 100 (99). That is an unacceptable scorecard for our batting unit," the legendary Australian opener told media in the post-match interaction.
"It was just a horrible day for us today. Truth be told, there was nothing good about this day, really, apart from Rabada's performance with the ball. so we've got some work to do, definitely."
GT boast a strong batting line-up in Sai Sudharsan (759 runs), Shubman Gill (717), and Jos Buttler (538). They have also added New Zealand’s explosive Glenn Phillips in the middle order alongside Shahrukh Khan and Rahul Tewatia.
"When you look down at our batting line-up, we've got wonderful players that have to be in a better mindset and better position to take their opportunities. That is our expectations and has been since the conception of this Gujarat Titans franchise...
"So you can't be sitting here and being happy about, a 100-run (99) margin game in a 20-over game. I mean, back in my day, 100 runs was almost a winning total in 50-over cricket!"
The 54-year-old said GT lost the game in the powerplay.
"Well, middle order was undoubtedly exposed today. When they're coming in with six overs, you know that you're in deep trouble. The thing about the power plays is that you can't win it from there, especially in a run chase, but you can definitely lose it, and we lost it in the power play," he said.
Shahrukh (35 off 25 balls) and Tewatia (49 off 42) have not fared well this season and Hayden feels the duo along with Phillips (67 off 54 balls) have been struggling because the top order has been below its best.
"The relevance behind balls faced when you look at, for example, someone like Glenn Phillips -- his record in T20 cricket is an impressive strike rate and you'll take that all day long in the majority of games," Hayden said.
"However, you need an upfront batting effort where you consistently taking the lion's share of the batting. We shouldn't be allowing, Tiwu (Tewatia) or Shahrukh or these guys lots of balls. That's not their role. That's not what they train for."
Hayden said GT has an aggressive and adaptable unit but their execution fell apart on the day.
"We are a very good thinking batting unit. We're not a conservative batting unit. You don't go out and get 200s as often as we do being conservative. But they're an adaptive batting unit. ...they've got their roles and they play them and today they simply didn't.
"So the worry isn't just today about the middle order. It'd be unfair to say that, they were going to go on and score 13 runs an over because by that stage, I felt like as a batting coach, I was on the mast and the boat was sinking."
It was poorly executed bowling effort
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Hayden also pointed to poor execution in the death overs.
"I feel like one-dimensional is very unfair on a world-class bowling attack, but I will take on board it was a poorly executed bowling effort this evening.
"When you look back at those last four overs, that was just a 'horror story' -- 73 off the last four is unacceptable as world-class players. That bowling line-up has to reflect on that performance... It was purely an executional thing."
He added that GT were below par with the ball on a surface that didn’t fully justify the high total.
"We're very average with the ball, firstly, on a wicket that I really felt was probably a 175-type wicket.
"When you look historically at this black soil pitch on No. 5, it's a 200-wicket for the loss of five batters. That's been its winning first-inning score, and today it wasn't that wicket (199/5)... It was visible that it had cracks in it. It was visible that it was up and down.
"So credit also has to go to Tilak Varma, who put in a wonderful performance. It wasn't a cookie-cutter type performance. It was a dominant performance down the ground. He read the play nicely. He was able to pick up and play with power and precision."
Hayden said the chase was still within reach but poor shot selection proved costly.
"And when you reflect on our own batting, we had one side of the ground that was a little more inaccessible than the other, and we lost, what, three wickets into the bigger side of that boundary.
"And it wasn't an impossible total. 200 still is a total that I would back our three world-class players at the top of the order to etch into that a bit more and then allow our more sort of game players. An opportunity to set out their stalls and bat deep into the innings."
