Being attentive to many contempt of courtroom circumstances initiated by litigants towards the State authorities and its companies for not implementing orders of the courtroom for unreasonably lengthy durations, the Excessive Court docket of Karnataka on Monday suo motu initiated a PIL petition to streamline the process for compliance and to create an efficient equipment to supervise implementation of the courtroom’s orders.
“The orders of the courts so disregarded and neglected for their compliance bring about a situation where the public at large would view that the system has failed. It would be considered that the courts have been losing their authority and their orders do not have any effect on the authorities of the government,” the courtroom noticed.
A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice N.V. Anjaria and Justice Krishna S. Dixit, handed the order whereas mentioning it has come throughout a lot of circumstances beneath the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, during which “the authorities have been found sitting tight over the orders of the court for unreasonably long period.”
“The casual, lethargic and insensitive approach on the part of the authorities towards the compliance of the orders and directions of the courts cannot be tolerated. It has to be dealt with sternly. As the justice delayed is justice denied, too belated compliance is not to be countenanced, but has to be viewed as contempt of court itself committed in disguise or in indirect manner,” the Bench noticed.
The Bench mentioned that suo motu continuing has been initiated for the good thing about the litigants, who have been unable to benefit from the outcomes of the litigation which have ended of their favour due by activating the authorities, to discharge their constitutional responsibility to obey and implement the orders of the courts with out reserving any delay on their half.
“As right to approach the court is a fundamental right, right to reap the fruits of litigation by getting the judgements, orders and directions of the court implemented without booking any delay unimpeded by the lethargic conduct on the part of the authorities, is also a right akin to fundamental,” the Bench noticed.
The Bench additionally directed the State and its companies to tell by June 5 what steps are typically taken by the authorities involved to take care of, to oversee, to observe and to effectuate the orders and instructions of the courts.