Trials go for decades; Indian legal system badly needs fixing, says CJI Gavai

Delivering convocation code astatine Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, CJI urges students to prosecute overseas acquisition via scholarships to easiness household fiscal burden

Chief Justice of India B R Gavai speaks during an event. PTI file

The Indian ineligible strategy has been facing unsocial challenges and is severely successful request of fixing, Chief Justice of India BR Gavai said connected Saturday.

Delivering convocation code astatine Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad astatine Justice City adjacent here, Justice Gavai advised students to spell overseas for studies connected scholarships, not to enactment unit connected household finances.

“Even though I reason that our ineligible strategy is severely successful request of fixing, I stay cautiously optimistic that my chap citizens volition emergence to the challenges,” CJI Gavai said.

“Our state and ineligible strategy are facing unsocial challenges. Delays successful trials tin sometimes spell for decades. We person seen cases wherever idiosyncratic has been recovered guiltless aft spending years successful jailhouse arsenic an undertrial. Our champion endowment tin assistance america resoluteness the problems that we are facing,” helium further said.

He advised the passing retired graduates to question mentors not for their power, but for integrity.

Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Supreme Court Judge Justice PS Narasimha besides participated successful the convocation, portion acting Chief Justice of Telangana High Court Justice Sujoy Paul presided implicit the convocation.