Orissa High Court former Justice AS Naidu, has expressed concern over the judiciary losing its charisma while calling for restoration of its old glory.
Inaugurating the 4th edition of ‘legal Spectra’, a four-day All India law School Meet organised by the faculty of law of SOA University here on Thursday, Naidu said, “If democracy survived in India it is because of the judiciary which was the best. But the judiciary is losing its charisma.”
“There was a time when no one could point a finger at a Judge, but the judiciary today is being criticised by the media. We have failed to provide the litigant public fast justice,” Naidu said.
He urged the students not to be lured by the corporate sector which offered fat pay packages to law graduates but join the bar and become good judicial officers. “You have a duty to the people who don’t get the service of brilliant lawyers in the court rooms,” he told the students while asking them to help restore the “lost glory of the judiciary.”
National Human Rights Commission Member SC Sinha, Odisha Advocate General SP Mishra and former bureaucrat C Narayanaswami also graced the function as the International Women’s Day was observed on the same platform.
SOA National Institute of law (SNIl) Dean Prof Prabir Patnaik, SOA’s faculty of law Prof Jayadev Pati and Associate Professor Madhubrata Mohanty ,SOA National Institute of law (SNIl) Dean Prof Prabir Patnaik, SOA’s Faculty of law Prof Jayadev Pati and Associate Professor Madhubrata Mohanty also spoke.
SOA Vice-Chancellor Prof Amit Banerjee presided over the programme.