People’s faith in constitutional institutions gets strengthened when justice is seen to be delivered, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday even as he cited the delay in getting justice as one of the major challenges faced by the people of the country.
Mr. Modi stressed that new laws should be written in a clear manner and in regional languages to bring “ease of justice”, so that even the poor can easily understand them and legal language doesn’t become a barrier for citizens.
He also urged the State governments to adopt a humane approach towards undertrial prisoners.
The Prime Minister made these remarks while inaugurating the All India Conference of Law Ministers and Law Secretaries’ by videoconference.
Obsolete laws scrapped
The two-day conference is being held at Kevadia in Gujarat and is being attended by Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju, among others.
Delivering the inaugural address, Mr. Modi said people should neither feel the absence of government nor its pressure. Mr. Modi said his government, in the past eight years, had scrapped more than 1,500 obsolete and irrelevant laws that were a relic of the British rule and reduced as many as 32,000 compliances for the sake of “innovation and ease of living”.
“When justice is seen to be delivered, then the faith of the countrymen in the constitutional institutions is strengthened. And when justice is delivered, the confidence of the common man goes up,” he said. Laying stress on ensuring ease of justice, he said, “Delay in getting justice is one of the major challenges being faced by the people of our country. But our judiciary is seriously working towards resolving this issue. In this
Mr. Modi said villages had been resorting to alternative dispute resolution mechanism for a long time and it can be adopted at the State level as well.
Speaking about the importance of the use of regional languages in the legal system, he said, “Obscurity of law creates complexity. If law is comprehensible to the common man, it will have a different impact.”