DNA Legal Tips: Reducing the âTareeksâ in Execution Proceedings - A commendable effort by the Supreme Court
The issue of pendency of execution has been of concern for the judiciary since colonial times.
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Updated: Jun 28, 2021, 11:14 AM IST
We have all heard the famous line from the movie Damini in which Sunny Deol echoes the famous dialogue
“Tareek
Pe
Tareek”. This dialogue is a general reflection of public perception of the justice delivery system in India. It highlights an underlying issue of pendency of cases and delay. The National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), a real time dashboard run by the National Informatics Center (NIC), highlights that currently there are 3,89,41,148 cases pending in the lower judiciary. Among them 1,03,81,615 are civil cases and the remaining are criminal cases. These numbers create a huge backlog of cases and prevent access to justice. It also deters people to proactively engage or benefit from the justice system.
Jata Shankar Jha: A Historian Who Was Simplicity Personified
He was a professional historian looking for, and into, primary evidence, making the sharpest possible analysis.
Jata Shankar Jha (August 22, 1926-February 4, 2021).
History08/Feb/2021
February 4, 2021 claimed two great historians. Both were from different villages of Madhubani district in Bihar, both educated from Patna, both with the surname Jha. They were Jata Shankar Jha and Dwijendra Narayan Jha (1940-2021).
Jata Shankar Jha did not teach at a university. He was with the KP Jaiswal Research Institute (KPJRI) Patna, from where he retired in 1984, having also served as its director. He did not write a textbook, nor did he intervene in certain contentious issues which needed a historianâs intervention. He did not belong, to the best of my knowledge, to any ideologically motivated groups or factions.