New Delhi: Noted jurist Harish Salve on Friday said a lot of people who are not elected representatives feel that they can impose their will on the government through the courts.
He made the observation while asserting that one can criticise a judgment and even a judge, but attributing motives to them is wrong.
The senior advocate also said violation of privacy is a serious issue and that private data is a valuable property but Indians are not serious about it.
Salve, while speaking during a webinar on the issue of 'Insulting the Judiciary from Social Media Diatribes', said, "To say judgement is to favour a political party or judge has acted in favour of political party is wrong. Supreme Court is not a dartboard. You can criticise a judgment saying the judge has taken a conservative line."
Salve said some people have got used to pushing the Supreme Court for relief.
"When they do not get relief from Supreme Court, they say judges are not doing this because of this reason... Some people are pushing the boundaries by saying Supreme Court deserves 'F' grade for its handling of migrants. I have been reading these articles. They are wrong," Salve said.
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"A lot of people who are not elected feel that they can impose their will on the government through courts. One can criticise that court saying that (in migrants' case) either the court should have intervened or not.. but to say that the court is scared of the government is wrong," he said.
