Former Law Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Monday expressed displeasure over some of the recent judgments passed by the Supreme Court and said he has “no hope left” in the institution. Kapil Sibal also said that even the landmark judgments passed by the Supreme Court hardly change the reality on the ground.
Speaking at a People’s Tribunal on “Judicial Rollback of Civil Liberties” on Saturday, 6 August, Kapil Sibal said, “If you think you will get relief from the Supreme Court, you are very wrong. And I am doing this for 50 years.” After practicing in the Supreme Court, “And after 50 years I feel I have no hope from the institute.”
“You talk about the progressive decisions given by the Supreme Court but there is a lot of difference in what happens at the ground level. Supreme Court gave its verdict on privacy and ED officials have come to your house… where is your privacy?” Kapil Sibal said.
‘It’s time to speak’
Kapil Sibal said that he does not want to talk like this about the court where he has practiced for 50 years but “the time has come”.
“I don’t want to talk about a court where I have practiced for 50 years but the time has come. If we don’t speak, who will? The reality is that any sensitive matter about which we know there is a problem is put before a few judges and we know the outcome,” Kapil Sibal said.
Kapil Sibal criticized the Supreme Court for dismissing the petition of Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was killed during the Gujarat riots, challenging the clean chit given to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several others. . Provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) which gives wide powers to the Enforcement Directorate (ED); and dismissed a petition seeking an independent inquiry into the alleged incidents of non-judicial killings of 17 tribals by security forces during anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh.
Questioning the independence of the judiciary, Kapil Sibal said, “The court in which judges are seated (where judges are set up) through a process of compromise, a court where there is no system to determine which The case shall be presided over by which Bench, where the Chief Justice of India decides which case shall be disposed of by which Bench and when, that Court can never be independent.
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