Supreme Court: The Supreme Court, while hearing a case on Friday (March 17), said that if the judiciary uses its powers to give land to lawyers to build chambers, it will send the wrong message. will go A bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud heard a petition filed by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA). In fact, on this petition filed by SCBA president and senior advocate Vikas Singh, CJI Chandrachud said, instead of seeking a judicial solution to the matter, the bar association should trust the court that the matter will be negotiated with the government. .
A bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice PS Narasimha said that lawyers are part of our institution. Should we use judicial orders to protect our community? It sends a very wrong message that the judiciary is using its powers to acquire land. Today there is land, tomorrow it will be something else. It should not be that the court is exercising its judicial powers in its own way. However, validating the issue raised by the SCBA, CJI Chandrachud said it is not that we are not concerned. We will talk to the government about it. Our needs are increasing and we can try to persuade them for our demands. Attorney General R Venkataraman said in the Supreme Court that the flexibility of the administrative process has particular advantages. In court we may lose, but at the administrative level the negotiations go on for a long time. Senior advocate Vikas Singh told the court that our only concern is that the matter should not be set aside. The purpose of filing a petition is to start a dialogue with the government. The Supreme Court said that the government takes our needs very seriously at the administrative level. 7000 crore has been given to the judiciary without any deduction, as the Center felt it was the need of the hour. These are issues on which we should continue to engage with the government.
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In August 2022, the SCBA approached the Supreme Court. filed a petition in , seeking a direction to allot 1.33 acres of land to the Union Ministry of Urban Development for setting up lawyers’ chambers. At the beginning of this year, on March 2, Vikas Singh appeared before the bench of CJI DY Chandrachud and complained that the case was not heard despite saying it several times. Meanwhile, senior lawyer Singh had loudly said that the lawyers’ protest may start outside the judges’ house. On which the CJI asked Singh to lower his voice and warned that such behavior would not work in the Supreme Court.
After this, senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Neeraj Kishan Kaul present in the court. Apologized to CJI. Following this, SCBA members moved a motion seeking an apology from the two senior advocates for diluting the case. On this matter, former Attorney General KK Venugopal said that the apology of senior lawyers was to maintain friendly relations. I request that resolutions against them are not passed, which will increase the animosity between the two factions.
After the hearing on Friday, the SCBA issued a letter of thanks to the CJI for preserving the judgment. In which it was said that after 70 years of waiting, the bar has won a big victory.
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