{"id":30729,"date":"2013-11-06T14:41:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=30729"},"modified":"2013-11-06T14:42:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:12:03","slug":"public-awareness-key-lokayukta-success-say-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/public-awareness-key-lokayukta-success-say-judges","title":{"rendered":"Public awareness key to Lokayukta success, say judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The institution of Lokayukta can function effectively only if there is an awareness in public of its role, judges said. \u201cThere has to be a proper and broader understanding of the office of Lokayukta\u201d and its \u201cevolving jurisdiction has to be settled by the High Courts and the Supreme Court\u201d, said Justice Manmohan Sarin at a function here Tuesday to release the Compendium of the 11th All India Lokayuktas Conference.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt is for the judiciary to innovate the expansion of the institution of Lokayukta in a bonafide and legal way coupled with the backing by credible media,\u201d said Justice Sarin, who Tuesday demitted office as Lokayukta of Delhi.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Observing that there has to be an awareness about the Lokayukta and credible media could immensely contribute in that endeavour, Justice Sarin said: \u201cOnce the recommendations are made (by Lokayukta) and media, after properly analyzing, put it before the people, then no government worth its salt can ignore it.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Advocating a \u201cdeep introspection\u201d and the cleansing of the system, the apex court judge Justice Madan B. Lokur said: \u201cWe need to introspect whether institutions have failed us or we have failed the institutions.\u201d Justice Lokur called for clearing the institutions and squarely facing the problems.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He praised Justice Sarin for his initiative in organising the conference and meticulously conducting its proceedings. Another apex court Judge, Justice A.K. Sikri said: \u201cThere can\u2019t be economic growth and good governance unless we have a corruption free society and the institution of Lokayukta has an important role to play in this direction.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Underlining the importance of public awareness, Justice Nandrajog said: \u201cIt is a public shame (that can make people in position to mend their ways) and if public shame does not work (in democracy), then possibly nothing else would work.\u201d This story has not been edited by Firstpost staff and is generated by auto-feed.(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The institution of Lokayukta can function effectively only if there is an awareness in public of its role, judges said. \u201cThere has to be a proper and broader understanding of the office of Lokayukta\u201d and its \u201cevolving jurisdiction has to be settled by the High Courts and the Supreme Court\u201d, said Justice Manmohan Sarin at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4274,12630,26869,26870,47776,47765,47774,47775,23371],"class_list":["post-30729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-justice-a-k-sikri","tag-justice-madan-b-lokur","tag-justice-manmohan-sarin","tag-justice-nandrajog","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Public awareness key to Lokayukta success, say judges<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Public awareness key to Lokayukta success, say judges\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/public-awareness-key-lokayukta-success-say-judges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public awareness key to Lokayukta success, say judges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Public awareness key to Lokayukta success, say judges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/public-awareness-key-lokayukta-success-say-judges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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