Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said on Wednesday that in India, the undertrials languished in prisons for longer duration as they could not cough up the funds required to pursue a case.
Speaking during the inaugural event of new building of the Jharkhand High Court, the CJI said the presumption of innocence was a fundamental of criminal law jurisprudence.
As per CJI Chandrachud, the district judiciary needed to be at par with higher courts and they would augment the prestige of the citizens.
He said during his experience at the High Court, he knew the difference between justice and injustice, adding that delay in undertrial cases lead to erosion of trust in justice delivery system.
He stressed on the need to provide proper meals in courts and proper washroom facilities for women, pointing out that there were many courts, which did not have women washroom facilities.
The CJI said it was important to ask hard questions.
He said that even now, backward and marginalised classes or Adivasis did not have proper land records and papers.
As per the CJI, with the help of technology, the Supreme Court was aiming to take justice to the doorsteps of citizens, apart from English.
President Droupadi Murmu inaugurates the new building of the Jharkhand High Court.
Law Minister (Independent Charge) Arjun Ram Meghwal, Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Governor of Jharkhand C.P. Radhakrishnan and Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court Sanjaya Kumar Mishra were present on the occasion.
The post appeared first on .