Institutional need to create a safe environment for judicial officers: SC

THERE is an institutional need to create an environment where judicial officers feel safe and secure to address the alarming situation in the country where judicial officers and lawyers are being pressurized and intimidated by threats of, and/or actual violence, the Supreme Court said on Monday. The observations were made by a Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana-led bench while hearing a suo motu case on the death of an Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) following injuries caused to him … Continue reading Institutional need to create a safe environment for judicial officers: SC