PANJIM: Rajya Sabha MP, Mr Shantaram Naik, in a statement issued on Saturday said that he will revive his demand for a separate High Court made 25 years ago as the president of south Goa advocates association and later as member of Lok Sabha, during the forthcoming monsoon session of Rajya Sabha.
Mr Naik said that Panjim bench of Bombay High Court was established on October 30, 1982, pending the demand for a full-fledged High Court for Goa as contemplated under the Constitution, and that, demand for High Court was not given up by the lawyers community in Goa.
The MP said that it is because there was a vertical split within the lawyers community he did not pursue the demand after the bench was established in Goa, and added that, he is happy to learn that a consensus is developing for a full-fledged High Court due to the realisation among lawyers about the advantages of having one, besides the state’s constitutional right of getting one.
Mr Naik said one cannot forget that Goa had a full-fledged High Court with five sitting judges having jurisdiction not only over the areas of Daman and Diu but had the jurisdiction over Portuguese colonies of Macau and Timor, for about four centuries.
He further said that even the Court of Judicial Commissioner which was established in the Union Territory after the liberation was nothing less than a High Court. In fact, the bench of Bombay High Court is much lower in judicial status than the then Court of Judicial Commissioner.
Referring to another development, Mr Naik said that the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964, framed under the Article 309 of the Constitution, which are applicable to government servants, should not be made applicable to the officers of subordinate judiciary, and that, a different set of rules should be enacted for such officers.
The Standing Committee of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, Pension, Law and Justice is examining presently Judicial Standard and Accountability Bill, 2010, of which, Mr Naik said, he was a member.
The MP also said that many questions related to judicial standards to be observed and, accountability to be maintained will be addressed in the bill, and that, judges cannot be treated on par with government servants working in the offices of executive in the matter of conduct and discipline. Mr Naik said that he will raise the issue in the Rajya Sabha at an appropriate debate.
Mr Naik maybe a politician in the wrong party, but he is the only one who speaks for Goa...hats of to him.
ReplyDeleteIt is heartening to know that the Goa Advocates have, in Mr. Shantaram Naik, M.P., a champion fighter in Parliament to support their demand for a separate High Court for Goa. The present Bench of the Bombay High Court was established in 1982, before Goa attained Statehood. The State has a Constitutional right to have an independent High Court.
ReplyDeleteBesides, during the erstwhile Portuguese regime, Goa had its own High Court (Tribunal de Relacao), with a Goan as Desembargador. We must support this movement for an independent High Court for Goa State.
looks like Goa has only one MP Shantaram Naik to speek out to Centre on any issue related to whether be on Navy land grab etc. Other two from North and South are bloody dump idiots, they are least bothered about Goa rather more engrossed in full-filling their own motives. Never heard these two ars...les making noise or raising any issues that affects Goa and Goans.
ReplyDelete