Cuttack: CJI Ramana said the legislature needs to revisit the laws, and reform them to suit the needs of the time and people – laws must match with our practical realities
Chief Justice NV Ramana on Saturday said the executive and the legislature should function in unison in realizing the constitutional aspirations, only then the judiciary would be spared from stepping in as law-maker and only then would it be left with the duty of applying and interpreting the law.
Speaking at the inauguration of a new building of the Odisha state legal services authority in Cuttack, CJI Ramana said the legislature needs to revisit the laws, and reform them to suit the needs of the time and people – laws must match with our practical realities and the executive has to match these efforts by way of simplifying the corresponding rules.
He emphasized that the executive and the legislature should function in unison in realising the constitutional aspirations.
“It is only then, that the judiciary would not be compelled to step in as a law-maker and would only be left with the duty of applying and interpreting the same. At the end of the day, it is the harmonious functioning of the three organs of the state that can remove the procedural barriers to justice,’ he said.
He said it is a general understanding of the people that it is the court’s responsibility to make laws. “This notion has to be dispelled. This is where the role of other organs of the state, i.e. the legislature and the executive assumes great significance,” said Justice Ramana.
