Moily for judicial reforms

The new government would ensure that even the ‘Aam admi’ got justice, he said after assuming charge here on Friday afternoon.
“Even the last man in the queue has to get justice… in the quickest time,’’ he said, adding that the agenda for the first 100 days of his ministry would be announced in a few days.
Moily said challenges were plenty, but solutions were simple. “There is no need for a constitutional amendment for judicial reforms, but only fine-tuning of governance is required.... Judicial reforms can’t be partial or fragmented. We need holistic reforms,” he said, admitting that the mounting backlog of about 2.64 crore cases was a “real headache”.
He added the Centre, states and other government organisations were the biggest litigants, and that his ministry would try to resolve the matter.
With a word of praise for the judiciary, the minister said the country had a highly talented manpower within and outside the judiciary, and that it was “the best in the world”.
For gearing up the criminal justice system, the government needed to provide more facilities at police stations such as mobile forensic laboratory and other modern equipment, Moily said.
Regarding corruption and the impeachment of Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court, the law minister said the government had no business to protect anybody. He added the matter was pending before the Rajya Sabha, and that the corrupt needed to be punished at the earliest.
On the question of disclosure of property details by the judges of the higher judiciary, he said there was a Supreme Court full-bench circular to make property statement public.