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Mangalore: Judges Should be Paid More: Lokayukta

  •   Fri, Oct 03 2008 08:19:27 AM

The Hindu

Mangalore, Oct 3: Echoing the growing dissatisfaction in judicial circles about the salaries paid to judges, Lokayukta N. Santhosh Hegde said on Thursday that the salaries of judges had not changed for quite sometime now, although bureaucrats had been reaping it rich.

“We have no friends in Vidhana Soudha or in the south and north blocks of the Parliament House in New Delhi to recommend for a salary hike,” he said while presiding over the valedictory function of the fifth All India Moot Court Competition, organised by the SDM Law College and the Centre for Postgraduate Studies in Law at the college auditorium here.

Warning students that they were about to join the legal system at a precipitous time Mr. Hegde said: “It is up to you to bring back the glory that the judiciary once enjoyed and restore people’s faith in it.”

National Law University of Jodhpur bagged the first prize at the fifth All India Moot Court Competition. The second place was secured by the Hidayattullah National Law University, Raipur. The first prize carries a cash prize of Rs 15,000 and a trophy and the runner up gets a cash prize Rs 10,000 and a trophy.
  

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  • PRAKASH N RAO, MANGALORE

    Fri, Oct 03 2008

    I fully agree with the statement by Justice Hegde about the compensation to be paid to Judges for the amount of work they undertake. Unlike an Office, the job of a Judge is to sit in his chair continuously and cannot sit idle. The Govt should have a separate Board to recommend salary/perks revision for Judges. Once the judges gets proper and adequate compensation I am sure they will be more comfortable and do their work in a more transperent manner.

    Today there is corruption in judiciary only because of low salary of the judges. Also some more amendments to our laws are needed so that judges can pronounce more judgements and dispose off the cases early. Take for example a case where judgement is prounced. Then the same is not obeyed. The petioner had to once again knock at the doors of judiciary. Now it is more than one year the case has not come up.

    Here had the law been there where not obeying is an offence, then by now the police would have executed the order of the Court. But our systems are not proper. Again once needs to go to the Court, to tell the Court that your orders have not been obeyed, What should I do. This and such other laws if they are amended, I am sure our Country will progress much faster and work at judiciary will reduce.

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