Issues which concern nation are not taken up by judiciary on urgent basis: Sibal

NEW DELHI:Senior advocate Kapil Sibal on Saturday alleged that the issues which concern the nation are not taken up on an urgent basis by the judiciary and that casts a doubt on its independence.
Sibal said that the Supreme Court has "failed to take up cases which should have been heard urgently", adding that pleas relating to abrogation of Article 370 provisions, demonitisation and issues relating to the coronavirus pandemic were not being immediately looked into.
"Very important matters are not heard by the courts in a timely manner and these are the reasons that there exists a perception that the judiciary is not independent," Sibal said at a webinar organised by advocate J Ravindran on the topic 'Independence of Judiciary'.
"The higher judiciary gives great credence to what the state says and it is not the liberal court as the constitution framers wanted it to be," Sibal said.
The former union minister said that the courts should be the custodian of the rights of the marginalised.
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