Hyderabad: Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan of the Hyderabad High Court said on Monday that hardly 10 per cent of the Indian population was using the judicial process to have their disputes resolved and their grievances addressed. Speaking at the High Court after hoisting the national Flag on the Independence Day, Justice Ranganathan said the primary obligation of the Bar and Bench was to provide access to justice to those who need it the most, and ensure its speedy delivery.
Justice Ranganathan said, “Reasons for the inordinate delay in the justice delivery system are many, and today is not the day when we should analyse the faults both within and outside. We must, however, remember that hardly 10 per cent of the Indian population makes use of judicial process to have their disputes resolved, and that a majority of our people are wary and sceptical of invoking the judicial mechanism to protect and enforce rights conferred on them the Constitution and laws.”
The ACJ said, “Our inability to empathise with the downtrodden in our mindless pursuit of wealth has only increased their sense of alienation. He opined that providing greater representation to the deprived sections of society would not necessarily result in a dilution of the standards of excellence which the Bench and Bar must both strive to achieve.
Advocates-General of Telangana and AP, K. Ramakrishna Reddy and Dammalapati Srinivas, preside-nts of the Bar Associations of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, C. Nageswara Rao and Gandra Mohan Rao, spoke. The ACJ felicitated senior advocates P. Balakrishna Murthy, K. Pratap Reddy, B.V. Subbaiah, Battula Venkateswara Rao, A. Pulla Reddy, E. Man-ohar, K.V. Satyanarayana, K.V. Subramanya Narasu, C. Ananda Rao, T. Bali Reddy and Koka Raghava Rao.
