Click to play videoNew Delhi: On his way out, the outgoing chief justice of India Y K Sabharwal has underlined what could well turn out to be the relationship between the legislature and judiciary in future.
“Relationship between judiciary, legislature and executive should not be cozy. It's dangerous. Duties should be performed properly,” Sabharwal says.
The potential flashpoint already exists. On Thursday, in a far-reaching judgment, the Supreme Court said that those laws within the Ninth Scehdule, kept beyond judicial review, would come under the court’s authority.
Governments have often been able to circumvent the court's striking down of politically important laws by placing them in the Ninth Schedule.
But now Sabharwal pitched for stern action against erring politicians and had a word to say about his own fraternity also.
“Corruption, wherever it exists, including judiciary must be exposed,” Sabharwal explains.
With Sabharwal's tenure being marked by an active judiciary and the new Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan denying any standoff between judges and politicans, one will have to watch how the relationship between the two pillars of Indian democracy unfolds in future.
(With inputs from Ashok Bagriya)
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