Be more sensitive to differently-abled, rape survivors: Allahabad HC judges to subordinate courts
Lucknow (PTI): Subordinate court judges in Uttar Pradesh should be more sensitive towards the differently-abled and rape survivors in dispensation of justice and this should reflect in their judicial attitude, Allahabad High Court judges have said.
In an address to over 200 judicial officers, including district judges from Lucknow, Kanpur, Sitapur, Raebareli, Unnao and Ayodhya during a conference here on Sunday, Justice D K Upadhyay said, "We should develop a culture of respecting women and we should also imbibe a culture of equality in our society.
The Constitution does not make a revolution but it is revolutions that make a Constitution, he said.
The two-day conference on "Sensitisation of District Court Judges on Gender Justice and Differently-Abled Victims/Survivors of Sexual Abuse" was aimed at training subordinate judges, especially those dealing with cases related to women and differently-abled persons.
The high court judges asked the judges of the subordinate courts across the state to be more sensitive towards differently-abled victims and rape survivors in dispensation of justice to them, and said it should reflect in their judicial attitude and in the overall judicial functioning in the courts.
Supreme Court judge Justice Dinesh Maheshwari inaugurated the conference on Saturday. He had said justice should not be litigant-centric but cause-centric .
Differently-abled people, he said, needed special attention rather than sympathy.
"It is empathy which should be embedded in the approach of judging while dealing with disabled victims or survivors of sexual abuse," Justice Maheshwari had said.
Addressing the participants, Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court Rajesh Bindal had said the pendency of cases in courts in Uttar Pradesh showed that people were not getting justice on time.
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BJP has history of ‘contradictory alliances’, says BK Hariprasad
Bengaluru: Congress MLC B. K. Hariprasad has launched a sharp attack on the BJP, accusing the party of hypocrisy over its criticism of alliance politics in Tamil Nadu.
In a post on X on Friday, Hariprasad said BJP leader B. L. Santhosh criticising the Congress party’s alliance politics in Tamil Nadu was “not just laughable, but the height of political contradiction.”
He said the Congress has always joined hands with like-minded parties to protect secular and democratic values in the country.
Hariprasad questioned the BJP over several of its past and present alliances across the country. Referring to Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Tripura, Bihar and Maharashtra, he accused the BJP of sharing power with parties it had earlier criticised.
He alleged that the BJP had aligned with separatist and corruption-linked political forces in different states for political gains.
“The BJP, which speaks against alliances today, should first look at its own political history,” he said, adding that the party’s record was full of “contradictions and changing stands.”
Hariprasad also accused the BJP of using central agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax Department and CBI as political tools to target opposition leaders, topple governments and influence electoral mandates.
He further claimed that the people of Tamil Nadu had strongly rejected the BJP and its ideology in the recent election.
“Congress forms alliances to protect the Constitution, secularism and national unity, while the BJP enters into alliances only for power,” he said.
