CJI asks litigants not to ‘romance’ with litigations

CUTTACK: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra on Sunday urged the people not to remain obsessed with litigations and make effort to see if they can be solved otherwise.

“You are welcome to litigate. But do not romance with

litigation,” Misra, who is due to retire next month, said.

He, however, added that courts welcome people to litigate if they have genuine grievances. “I do not suggest for a moment that you should not fight for a cause. But when the cause is small and can be solved otherwise, then solve it. Because that also serves the purpose of access to justice,” Misra said.

Misra was speaking after

laying the foundation stone of the permanent building of Odisha State Legal Services Authority (OSLSA) and inaugurating the legal assistance establishment Nyaya Sanjog in all the 30 districts of the state.

Misra also inaugurated the computerisation of 150 School Legal Literacy Clubs spread across the state.

Pursuant to the guidelines received from the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), the OSLSA is running legal literacy clubs in at

least 746 high schools of the state. Of them, five schools each from all 30 districts have now been equipped with one computer and internet facility and other necessary legal kits to spread legal literacy among the young minds. Sometimes, school and college students can be extremely helpful in solving

litigations, Misra said. “We involve students to mediate, to talk to the litigants and even talk to the under-trial prisoners in getting benefits of Plea Bargaining as postulated in CRPC (Code of Criminal Procedure),” Misra said.