While inaugurating the annexe building of the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court on 23 October 2021, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana sought the attention of Union Minister of Law and Justice Mr Kiren Rijiju (present on the dais) to the sorry state of judicial infrastructure in the country. Exhorting the urgent need to overhaul the judicial infrastructure, the CJI said “Good judicial infrastructure for courts in India has always been an afterthought. It is because of this mindset that courts still operate from dilapidated structures making it difficult to effectively perform their functions”. Justice Ramana is not the first CJI to flag this. Many CJIs before him have sought the attention of the government on this. In fact, in 2016, the then CJI T.S. Thakur broke down while stating the longlist of backlogs, judicial vacancies, and infrastructure woes impacting judicial credibility.
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