CUTTACK, MAY 08: Chief Justice of India T S Thakur on Sunday said access to justice was a fundamental right and governments cannot afford to deny it to the people.
"While we (judiciary) remain keen to ensure that judges' appointments are made quickly, the machinery involved with the appointment of judges continue to grind very slowly," Justice Thakur said, adding around 170 proposals for appointment of HC judges were now pending with the government.
Justice Thakur said “Law Commission of India in 1987 had suggested for having 44,000 judges to effectively tackle the then number of pending cases, the country today has only 18,000 judges.If you go by the number of people that have been added to the population, we may now require more than 70,000 judges to clear the pending cases.” (Agencies)
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