Govt to be ‘reluctant’ litigant: Moily

“That is why there is an urgency to make the government a reluctant litigant,” Moily told a seminar on ‘Rule of Law’ organised by the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies and Freidrick-Naumann-Stiftung fur die Freiheit.

“The idea is to reduce the pendency levels before 2012 by bringing down the time taken to dispose of cases from the present 15 years to just 3 years,” he said.

For the purpose,the Law Ministry has come out with a

National Litigation Policy,in consultation with other ministries and after compiling the number of pending cases of each of the ministries.

Among other projects approved by the government include the National Legal Mission to take judiciary to the doorsteps of the common man,he added.

On Rule of Law,the Minister said it was meant to protect the ‘aam aadmi’ (common man),as much as it protects the rich.

He said the idea of democracy and purpose of the Constitution was to uphold the rights of the poor and prevent “exploitation,corruption and malpractices”.