Did CJI Chandrachud’s concern come true… The lower court’s decision on the ‘car owner’ in the Old Rajendra Nagar accident was a hint towards this!

New Delhi. The concern expressed by the Chief Justice (CJI) of the country’s largest court, DY Chandrachud, 3 days ago, seemed to be proved true today, i.e. Tuesday. Actually, CJI Chandrachud has raised questions many times about the way the lower court works. His biggest concern is that the judges of the lower court want to stay safe and do not want to take any risk. This seemed to be proved true when Delhi’s Tis Hazari Court rejected the bail plea of ​​the person arrested for driving the car in the case of the death of three students in the accident at Rajendra Nagar IAS Coaching Academy.

When Delhi Police arrested the owner of the Thar car after the accident in Old Rajendra Nagar, the discussion from social media to lawyers in the court room was on what charges he was arrested. The common man was also hoping that when this matter comes to the court, the case of Delhi Police against the Thar owner will not stand. This case will be dismissed in the first hearing of the court itself. But nothing like this happened, rather the Tis Hazari Court accepted all the arguments of Delhi Police in which the accused Manoj was described as a ‘reveler’. Not only this, Delhi Police also showed the videos of his YouTube channel to the judge. After the lower court’s decision in this case, people are remembering what the CJI said 3 days ago.

In its decision, the lower court has considered Manoj’s case of driving on water to be of serious nature. Not only this, the lower court judge has said that looking at the CCTV footage, it is evident at first glance that some passersby had tried to warn the driver about the dangers ahead, but he did not pay any attention. The lower court judge said that due to driving at such a high speed on a water-filled road, a large part of the water came out of the road, due to which the alleged gate of the coaching center broke and water went into the basement, due to which three innocent students lost their lives in this incident. After this decision of the lower court, now the accused will knock the door of the High Court and he will plead for bail. If he gets relief from there, then it is fine, otherwise he will file a bail petition in the Supreme Court.

Now it remains to be seen whether the accused gets bail from the higher court or his case is dismissed. Let us tell you that during the hearing of the Old Rajendra Nagar accident, the High Court had said on the arrest of the car owner that in this case the police has arrested a passerby. Not only this, the High Court had also expressed displeasure over the action of the lower level corporation employees.

In fact, while speaking at a program in Bengaluru, CJI Chandrachud had said that the accused who should get bail from the lower court are not getting bail there. Due to this, the accused reach the High Court with a petition and in this way their workload also increases. Not only this, when the High Court also does not grant bail to the accused, then those accused go to the Supreme Court, in this way the number of cases is also increasing in the country’s highest court. Not only this, the CJI had said that today the problem is that any relief given by the judges of the lower courts is viewed with suspicion.

This means that subordinate court judges do not want to take any risk by granting bail in important cases. The Chief Justice said that judges have to look at the nuances and subtleties of each case. He said that most of the cases should not come to the Supreme Court.

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