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Call to form judicial commission

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`Panel should be given powers to probe graft charge against judges'

FOR JUDICIAL REFORMS: West Bengal Assembly Speaker H.A. Halim delivering a speech on `Restructuring of judiciary and necessity of judicial commission' at a function organised by the All India Lawyers Union in Kochi on Thursday. Photo: Vipinchandran

Kochi: Speaker of West Bengal Assembly and Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association H.A. Halim on Thursday stressed the need to set up a national judicial commission to make the process of appointing High Court and Supreme Court judges transparent.

He was delivering the keynote address at a meet on `Restructuring of Judiciary and Necessity of Judicial Commission,' organised by the All India Lawyers' Union, High Court Committee.

He alleged that appointment of judges was not being done in a transparent manner. Hence, the need for a National Judicial Commission. The Commission should also have the power to go into allegations of corruption against judges and look into the aspects like how the judicial expenses could be made cost-effective.

The West Bengal Speaker said the judiciary should be made free of corruption, as the people reposed their confidence in the judiciary. He said the battle against corruption should be fought more vigorously in the judiciary.

He said the country needed judges who could apply the existing laws in conformity with the changing time. Then only social changes could be brought about in society. N.A.Ali, State general secretary of the union, presided. Bar Council chairman P.G. Thampi and Kerala High Court Advocates' Association president K. Gopalakrishna Kurup spoke. P.V. Surendranath, secretary, High Court Committee of the union, proposed a vote of thanks.

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