Lucknow: Union law minister Veerappa Moily on Thursday said the powers, rights and duties of the legislature, executive and judiciary have been defined in the Constitution and these three pillars of the democracy should not encroach upon each other's jurisdiction.
He also said that people should use constitutional ways to achieve socio-economic objectives and abandon methods advocating bloody revolution, civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagrah.
The statement assumes significance in the light of recent orders of the Supreme Court on 2G scam and appointment of PJ Thomas as the Central Vigilance Commissioner which left the Prime Minister and UPA government in an uncomfortable situation. It is also important in view of the fact that government had to concede to the demand of constituting a joint committee comprising members of civil society and people’s representative for drafting the Jan Lokpal Bill following the satyagrah of Gandhian Anna Hazare which received huge support all over the country.
Moily was addressing a gathering of teachers and students at a function organised by Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Central University here to mark the foundation-laying of the building of school for legal studies.
Later, he spoke to media but refused to answer political queries saying that he would not like to discuss politics in an university where he was to attend an academic function.
However, in his speech, Moily said: “Courts may modify, they cannot replace. They can revise earlier interpretations as new arguments, new points of view are presented, they can shift the dividing line in marginal cases, but there are barriers they cannot pass, definite assignments of power they cannot reallocate. They can give a broadening construction of existing powers, but they cannot assign to one authority powers explicitly granted to another.”
He said “Indians should place creed over country, otherwise our independence will be put in jeopardy a second time and probably be lost for ever”.
The statement assumes significance in the light of recent orders of the Supreme Court on 2G scam and appointment of PJ Thomas as the Central Vigilance Commissioner which left the Prime Minister and UPA government in an uncomfortable situation. It is also important in view of the fact that government had to concede to the demand of constituting a joint committee comprising members of civil society and people’s representative for drafting the Jan Lokpal Bill following the satyagrah of Gandhian Anna Hazare which received huge support all over the country.
Moily was addressing a gathering of teachers and students at a function organised by Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Central University here to mark the foundation-laying of the building of school for legal studies.
Later, he spoke to media but refused to answer political queries saying that he would not like to discuss politics in an university where he was to attend an academic function.
However, in his speech, Moily said: “Courts may modify, they cannot replace. They can revise earlier interpretations as new arguments, new points of view are presented, they can shift the dividing line in marginal cases, but there are barriers they cannot pass, definite assignments of power they cannot reallocate. They can give a broadening construction of existing powers, but they cannot assign to one authority powers explicitly granted to another.”
He said “Indians should place creed over country, otherwise our independence will be put in jeopardy a second time and probably be lost for ever”.
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