Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Fast-track Courts?

I am skeptical about the euphoria sought to be created around the launching of fast track courts. As long as the procedural law in India is not reformed, all attempts at speedy trials are foredoomed to failure. You could possibly have fast dispensation of justice in the early days, but as time will pass, the procedural law will catch up with it like weeds and retard its speed. The failure of consumer forums to provide speedy justice to hapless consumers is ample evidence of how procedural law can invade even quasi-judicial bodies such as consumer forums. On an average count, it could take at least a year before a complaint before a district consumer forum could reach the stage of arguments. This happens, because the people appointed to such bodies fail to recognize that consumer forums were deliberately designated as forums and not courts to rescue them from the procedural delays of the judiciary.

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