Not just quite a few, I believe most, of our ordeals are those which two segments of the State mutely contribute. These two are, judiciary and the fourth state, the media.
Their tacit role escape attention. In this regard, media has twin role as a major participant in the creation of public miseries. First one is a natural outcome of incompetence. Take any news story. Its content would speak for the incompetence of the scribe to address the issue covered therein. Second one is media's near non-concern about the judicial machinery. The legal proceedings , which may extend or touch upon the non-exercise or abuse of statutory functions of the police, are out of the bound areas for the media that is marred by perceptional inadequacies for want of expertise or expert guidance.
The shortcomings in the media has direct bearing on the sluggish pace at which the justice delivery system functions. Those who know little but pretend to be all knowing, in which art we have excelled in recent years, entertain a misconception that the tardy pace of the Indian legal apparatus is something natural as being an inevitable product of dilatory character of the laws. This misconception subsists primarily because of the fact that the media has relegated the justice delivery system to a dark region from which a respectable distance must be maintained, lest a misadventure might land an enthusiast into trouble . To explain the situation, one may visualise the reaction of a novice who is asked to climb an electric pole to remedy an electrical fault responsible for power tripping. What is needed is to find a right person who is an adept rather than hearing the dangers involved in the requisite act. Media has not been able to find a set of adepts who would address legal reportings and have chosen to abandon the field, maintaing only cosmetic presence.
In the result, the judicial system has , over a period of time, receded beyond public view. Why only public view? Even its controlling functionaries might be wholly unaware of its underlying deficiencies which are getting worse with each passing day.
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Their tacit role escape attention. In this regard, media has twin role as a major participant in the creation of public miseries. First one is a natural outcome of incompetence. Take any news story. Its content would speak for the incompetence of the scribe to address the issue covered therein. Second one is media's near non-concern about the judicial machinery. The legal proceedings , which may extend or touch upon the non-exercise or abuse of statutory functions of the police, are out of the bound areas for the media that is marred by perceptional inadequacies for want of expertise or expert guidance.
The shortcomings in the media has direct bearing on the sluggish pace at which the justice delivery system functions. Those who know little but pretend to be all knowing, in which art we have excelled in recent years, entertain a misconception that the tardy pace of the Indian legal apparatus is something natural as being an inevitable product of dilatory character of the laws. This misconception subsists primarily because of the fact that the media has relegated the justice delivery system to a dark region from which a respectable distance must be maintained, lest a misadventure might land an enthusiast into trouble . To explain the situation, one may visualise the reaction of a novice who is asked to climb an electric pole to remedy an electrical fault responsible for power tripping. What is needed is to find a right person who is an adept rather than hearing the dangers involved in the requisite act. Media has not been able to find a set of adepts who would address legal reportings and have chosen to abandon the field, maintaing only cosmetic presence.
In the result, the judicial system has , over a period of time, receded beyond public view. Why only public view? Even its controlling functionaries might be wholly unaware of its underlying deficiencies which are getting worse with each passing day.
(More to follow)
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