{"id":208523,"date":"2022-09-28T18:57:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208523"},"modified":"2022-09-28T18:57:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:27:47","slug":"the-lalit-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-lalit-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lalit Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cThe Lalit Effect\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Times of India <\/strong>on <strong>28th September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Indian Judiciary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Challenges before judicial system<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; The article explains the issues of frequent adjournment pleas and frivolous PILs in higher courts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice UU Lalit has increased the matters listed daily. It has led to an increase of adjournment pleas by lawyers.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the rules related to adjournment pleas by courts?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Civil cases<\/strong>&#8211; Civil Procedure Code stipulates a maximum of three adjournments while hearing a case.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Criminal cases<\/strong>&#8211; Criminal Procedure Code instructs judicial officers to hear trials and inquiries on a day-to-day basis. It stipulates that a lawyer engaged in another court cannot be a ground for adjournment.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the issues faced by the judicial system?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Adjournment pleas<\/strong>&#8211; \u00a0Adjournments are taken for reasons like lawyers being busy in other courts. It leads to judicial delays.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, a government panel on speeding up commercial disputes found the three-adjournment rule violated in 50% of civil cases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frivolous PILs<\/strong>&#8211; These are diversionary for constitutional courts.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Bombay HC dismissed a PIL seeking a ban on advertisements of non-vegetarian foods. The court asked the petitioners why they wish to encroach on others rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cThe Lalit Effect\u201d published in The Times of India on 28th September 2022. Syllabus: GS2- Indian Judiciary Relevance&#8211; Challenges before judicial system News&#8211; The article explains the issues of frequent adjournment pleas and frivolous PILs in higher courts of the country. Chief Justice UU Lalit has increased&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-lalit-effect\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lalit Effect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-208523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}