Cash at judge’s residence: RS Chairman Dhankar backs NJAC Act deemed unconstitutional by SC
“I am sure we will have a very fruitful interaction and find a way out, because legislature and judiciary perform optimally when they perform best in their respective realm with expedition,” the Chairman said in the House.
“I seek your suggestions on one very important point. What emanated from Indian Parliament as a historic development with rare convergence of unity since Independence found acceptance by needed state legislatures. We need to reflect on what happened,” he said, referring to the NJAC Act.
Dhankhar said, “This House, keeping dignity in mind, demonstrating dignified conduct, unanimously created a legal system in 2015 and that constitutional structure that emanated unanimously with one abstention from the Parliament endorsed by state legislatures should be rule of law because it was sanctified by the President by appending her signatures under Article 111.” He went on to add, “Now is the befitting occasion for all of us to reiterate that because that was a visionary step endorsed by Parliament. And imagine if that had taken place, things would have been different.”
Noting that he does not wish to be judgmental, Dhankhar said, “But one thing which has found widespread acceptability in the country is that the entire material available with the Supreme Court has been shared with the people at large and with the constitution of a committee with that speed, I’m sure things will be available to us.”
He said, “Now, we are at a crossroads. I strongly urge members to reflect. There can be no breach by any institution of what emanated from the Parliament, endorsed by legislatures. And that should again, I reiterate, be the mechanism holding the field. It is time for us, having seen such an extraordinarily painful scenario...Innocence is something which we take at a very high level till someone is proven guilty.”
He added, “So, we will come back to the House on this very critical important issue that goes much beyond the judicial mess. It concerns sovereignty of Parliament, supremacy of Parliament, and whether we are at all relevant.”
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