Justice Hrishikesh Roy, Judge, Supreme Court of India today inaugurated two day North Zone-I Regional Conference on “Court Dockets: Explosion & Exclusion” at SKICC, Srinagar in presence of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, Judge Supreme Court of India, Justice Rajesh Bindal, Judge Supreme Court of India, Justice N Kotishwar Singh, Judge Supreme Court of India, Justice Tashi Rabstan, Chief Justice High Court of J&K and Ladakh (Patron-in-Chief, J&K Judicial Academy), Justice Anirudhha Bose Director, National Judicial Academy, Bhopal and Former Judge, Supreme Court of India, and Justice Sindhu Sharma, Judge, High Court of J&K and Ladakh (Chairperson, Governing Committee for J&K Judicial Academy).
The Zonal Conference is being hosted by the Jammu & Kashmir Judicial Academy under the aegis of National Judicial Academy Bhopal. Besides, the nominated Judges and Judicial Officers of High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, Judges and Judicial officers nominated by the High Courts of Punjab & Haryana, Delhi, Allahabad, Uttrakhand and Himachal Pradesh are participating in the scheduled conference.
Justice G. Raghuram, Former Director, National Judicial Academy, Justice Geeta Mittal, Former Chief Justice High Court of J&K and Ladakh,Justice Trilok Singh Chauhan, Acting Chief Justice High Court of Himachal Pradesh and JusticeManoj Kumar Tiwari, Acting Chief Justice, High Court of Uttarakhand also graced the inaugural session of the North Zone-I Regional Conference.
The inaugural session of the conference was also attended by Justice Atul Sreedharan, Justice Rajesh Oswal, Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul, Justice Puneet Gupta, Justice Javed Iqbal Wani, Justice Mohammad Akram Chowdhary, Justice Rahul Bharti, Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi, Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal Justice Rajesh Shekhri and Justice Mohammad Yousuf Wani.
Senior Additional Advocate General, Deputy Solicitor General of India, Senior Advocates, officers from Civil administration and Police, Shahzad Azeem Registrar General and other officers of High Court of J&K and Ladakh, M.K. Sharma, Principal Secretary to Chief Justice, Judicial Officers, Law Students, faculty members & young girls from Pareesha Children Home, Harwan also participated in the inaugural session.
In his inaugural address, Justice Hrishikesh Roy, Judge, Supreme Court of India emphasised that docket explosion has been preventing the delivery of quality judgments as well as timely justice and the grim situation can be felt in the matters involving personal liberty of individuals. He stressed that Docket Explosion is a significant concern in developing country like India, which is the world's largest democracy, with millions of court cases pending at different levels of the legal system. He further added that to combat this threat, some measures are required to be adopted, and suggested that Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is an effective tool in the administration of justice.