Patna: Asserting that quality of argument and judgement will improve with the introduction of technology, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday batted for the augmentation of judiciary aided by technology.
"Today we have something that we didn't have earlier, that is the power of technology. Let's make the bar, bench and court tech savvy. This is a time for new resolves and to think of new benchmarks," Prime Minister Modi said at the centenary programme of Patna High Court.
"In the last 100 years, this high court has scaled new heights. I hope the best aspects are carried forward in the years to come," he added..
He mooted a novel idea of courts coming out with an annual bulletin to highlight the oldest cases being tried by them to help create sensitivity on pendency of cases in the country.
"I have to make a suggestion on an idea I just thought about and that is can our courts every year bring out a bulletin that highlights the oldest cases pending before them.
Some may be 40 years or 50 years old and that could create sensitivity among people on the pendency of cases in the court.
"This would inspire others to do something about the pendency. It is not wrong to do so. This could help create an atmosphere to come out of the problem of pendency of case," he said addressing the gathering.
Prime Minister Modi was here to close the year-long programme on the centenary celebrations of Patna High Court.
The Prime Minister, speaking at the inauguration of newly constructed Digha-Sonepur rail-cum-road bridge, also said that the eastern parts of the country were key to the country's development. "The nerve centre of India's development is in eastern parts of the country and I can guess the importance of this bridge looking at the excitement of the people here. Rail, Roads and infrastructure has the strength to not only lay foundation for development but also accelerates growth. Rail is not just a mode of transport but is also a medium which can give impetus to growth in any economy. There has to be a complete modernisation of Railways," he said.
Modi also recalled the important role played by legal luminaries in the freedom struggle and narrated an incident during his visit to London where he was "gifted" with the return of membership of a noted lawyer in the 1930s who was stripped of it by the Bar there for participating in the independence movement.
President Pranab Mukherjee on April 18 last year had opened the centenary celebrations on the court's famed front lawns, in the centre of which ornamental marble tablets were installed to mark the landmark occasion.
Chief Justice of India T. S Thakur and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar were also present during the occasion.
