"No Wrong In Judges Being Pro, Against Government": Delhi Chief Justice

The Chief Justice, while speaking at the farewell reference organised by the high court, said that judges are only interpreters and are not here to make the law and a balance has to be maintained between judicial activism and restraint.

There is nothing wrong with judges being pro-government or against the government as they may have different outlook and approaches towards the issues before them and it leads to the development of law, said Delhi High Court Chief Justice DN Patel on Friday.

“Some judges are pro-labour, pro-employer, pro revenue, against revenue. Nothing is wrong. You see people are criticising... There is nothing wrong that you are pro-labour, pro-employer, pro-tenant, pro-landlord, pro-government, against the government. There is always the development of law by these types of judgement,” said Justice Patel, who will demit the office of Delhi High Court Chief Justice after attaining the superannuation age of 62 years on March 12.

The Chief Justice, while speaking at the farewell reference organised by the high court, said that judges are only interpreters and are not here to make the law or to evolve a policy and a balance has to be maintained between judicial activism and restraint.

“Whenever there is a gap between law and justice, as an exception, there is bound to be judicial activism and the same cannot be a “matter of role”, he added.