Financial autonomy & adequate infra essential for judiciary: CJI

New Delhi/Mumbai: Holding that financial autonomy and adequate infrastructure for the judiciary are essential to make the system more effective, Chief Justice N V Ramana on Saturday urged the Centre to clear his proposal to set up a National Judicial Infrastructure Authority, a statutory body that will take care of the needs of the judiciary.

- Amit Anand Choudhary and Bhavika Jain

The CJI, who was inaugurating the annexe buildings for the Bombay high court’s Aurangabad bench, said the present system of “ad-hoc and unplanned” manner of dealing with the judiciary’s infrastructural needs has to be done away with.

He buttressed his pitch by saying an effective judiciary could also “aid” in the effective growth of the economy and in attracting foreign investment, and state-of-the-art judicial infrastructure will mark the “best gift” to the people at the time of the build-up to the 75th anniversary celebrations of independence.