Legal services authorities are harbingers of justice for all, Supreme Court judge, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, said at the 15th All India Meet of States’ Legal Services Authorities on Sunday.
Justice Gogoi said there should be a debate on amendments to statutes to ensure access to justice through legal services authorities. He said the Supreme Court Legal Services Authority was not short of funds and needed to be proactive with the best legal talents within its fold.
The judge was speaking at the meet’s valedictory function.
On Saturday, Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar had said that while the legal machinery worked overtime for giving terrorists and hardcore criminals access to justice there was hardly a mechanism to reach out to their victims.
In his inaugural address, Chief Justice Khehar said he often wondered what befell the victims of rape, sexual assault and acid attacks, many of whom were bread winners for their family. “I wish to make an appeal to you today as a patron of the organisation. Let us reach out to the victims. Make 2017 a year of the victims,” he added.
