Nupur Sharma had requested the Supreme Court to club all the FIRs registered against her across the country and transfer them to Delhi
File image of Nupur Sharma. News18
Supreme Court judge Justice JB Pardiwala, one of the SC judges who slammed Nupur Sharma’s remarks on Prophet Mohammad, slammed ‘personal attacks’ being hurled at the judges.
Justice Pardiwala on Sunday cautioned that personal attacks on judges for their judgements will lead to a “dangerous scenario” in the country while suggesting that trials by digital media calls for undue interference in process of justice dispensation.
According to ANI, Justice JB Pardiwala, who was part of the Supreme Court bench that slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nupur Sharma for her comments on Prophet Muhammed, said that personal attacks on judges for their judgements lead to a “dangerous scenario” where the judges have to think about what media thinks instead of what the law really thinks.
“Social and digital media is primarily resorted to expressing personalised opinions more against the judges, rather than a constructive critical appraisal of their judgments. This is what is harming the judicial institution and lowering its dignity,’ said Justice Pardiwala.
“Personal attacks on judges for their judgments lead to a dangerous scenario where the judges have to think about what media thinks instead of what the law really thinks. This harms the rule of law. Social and digital media is primarily resorted to expressing personalised opinions more against the judges, rather than a constructive critical appraisal of their judgments. This is what is harming the judicial institution and lowering its dignity. The remedy of judgments does not lie with social media but with higher courts in the hierarchy. Judges never speak through their tongue, only through their judgments. In India, which cannot be defined as a completely mature or defined democracy, social media is employed frequently to politicize purely legal and constitutional issues,” he added.
“In the modern day context, trials by digital media are an undue interference in process of justice dispensation and cross that Lakshman Rekha many a times,” he added.
Citing Ayodhya case as an example, he said, “It was a land and title dispute but by the time the final verdict came to be delivered, the issue attained political overtones. It was conveniently forgotten that someday or the other some judge had to decide the contentious civil dispute which was indisputably the oldest litigation pending in the court of the country running into thousands of pages. This is where the heart of any judicial proceeding before the constitutional court may disappear and the judges deciding the dispute may get a bit shaken, which is antithetic to the rule of law. This is not healthy for the rule of law.”
Both Justice Pardiwala and Justice Surya Kant were targeted on social media by users after their oral comments against Nupur Sharma during the hearing of her plea, NDTV repoerted.
Nupur Sharma had gone to the Supreme Court demanding that all the First Information Reports registered against her across the country should be clubbed together and transferred to Delhi.
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