Supreme Court judge N.V. Ramana stressed the need for legal fraternity to do the fine balancing act of deciding which public interest litigation (PIL) merited their attention among the huge number of petitions they are flooded with.
The judges would otherwise be giving rise to impression that their actions bordered on judicial adventurism whereas judicial review was supposed to be the core of democracy.
Addressing a session ‘Democracy and judicial activism’, jointly organised by Rotary Club of Vijayawada and Rotary Club of Vijayawada Midtown here on Wednesday, Justice Ramana said there were many instances of misuse of the mechanism of PIL but the judiciary could obviously not make a sweeping remark on the purposes of such petitions as a good number of them were aimed at dispending genuine redress for public grievances.
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Central Hindi Institute Vice-Chairman and former MP Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad, Metropolitan Sessions Judge R. Murali, Rotarians C. Durga Prasad and V. Leela Prasad, K.S. Rao were present.