Making efforts to fill vacancies, improve judicial infra, says Chief Justice of India NV Ramana

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 15

Asking judges to take care of their physical and mental health, Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana today advised them to spend time with family every day.

“Take care of your physical and mental health. Take care of your family and spend time with your spouse and children. You must take out time every day to ensure that you remain fit,” the CJI told judges while inaugurating a two-day Telangana State Judicial Officers’ Conference in Hyderabad.

Financial security

Only when you are free from financial worries, you will be able to give your best. Let me assure you (judges) that I am taking up the matter related to pay commission and you will soon get good news on this front. NV Ramana, CJI

“I am aware of the increasing physical attacks on judges. I am doing my utmost to prevent such incidents. Directions were issued to improve the security of judicial officers both inside and outside courtrooms,” Justice Ramana said.

Acknowledging the importance of financial well-being, the CJI said: “Only when you are free from financial worries, you will be able to give your best. Let me assure you that I am taking up the matter related to pay commission and you will soon get good news on this front.”

Noting that the judiciary was overburdened, Justice Ramana said he was making efforts to fill vacancies in the judiciary and to improve judicial infrastructure in the country, besides addressing issues relating to security of judges and others.

“Access to justice is possible only when we provide sufficient number of courts as well as robust infrastructure,” he said, adding he wanted to see that there were no vacancies either in the high courts, Supreme Court or the district judiciary. He lamented that the judicial infrastructure was inadequate in different parts of the country.

The CJI requested judicial officers to create a congenial environment for litigants and to always remember the human aspects of the dispute.

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