Law professionals should be fearless, unbiased: Justice Chandrachud

VARANASI: Remembering the glorious history and vision of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) founder Mahamana Madan Mohan Malaviya, Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, judge, Supreme Court of India said here on Saturday that this university was founded with the vision of inclusion, compassion and tolerance. It provided space to all to get education. This institution also played a very important role in liberation of women for education.

Justice Chandrachud was speaking as chief guest in the inaugural function of centennial celebration of faculty of law, BHU, said a press statement issued by the varsity.

Chief Justice, Allahabad high court , Rajesh Bindal was the guest of honour. Professor RK Misra, former head and dean, faculty of law, BHU and former vice-chancellor, DDU Gorakhpur University was the special guest. Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta of Allahabad high court was also on the dais and professor VK Shukla, rector, BHU presided over the function.

Chairman, Law Commission of Uttar Pradesh and alumnus of law faculty, former judge, Allahabad high court, Pradeep Kumar Srivastava was also present on the occasion.

Justice Chandrachud said that the law professionals should be free, fearless and away from prejudices. A lawyer should break the barrier in order to provide justice to society. He said that there were crores of cases pending in the Indian judiciary out of which 465496 criminal cases were pending in Allahabad high court for the past 10 to 20 years. In UP district courts, 8241560 cases were pending out of which 30 percent were instituted last year. There was lack of legal representation to deal with them.

He said that the faculty of law, BHU was one among six universities in India which introduced free legal aid clinic.

Chief Justice, Allahabad high court , Rajesh Bindal, said that three-year law education was an achievement for the faculty of law, BHU. He said it had contributed in publishing Banaras Law Journal in 1965 when no other university was publishing such a journal. He suggested that every law graduate must get training of 40 hours of mediation and that two or a group of more than two law graduates should adopt a village to make it litigation -free.