{"id":58885,"date":"2020-02-24T15:51:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T10:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=58885"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:51:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T10:21:17","slug":"pm-modi-hails-judiciary-for-striking-balance-between-development-environment-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pm-modi-hails-judiciary-for-striking-balance-between-development-environment-protection","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi hails judiciary for striking balance between development &#038; environment protection."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/modi-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58887\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pm-modi-hails-judiciary-for-striking-balance-between-development-environment-protection\/modi-17\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/modi-1.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"302,201\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"modi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/modi-1.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58887\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/modi-1.jpg?resize=302%2C201&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/modi-1.jpg?w=302&amp;ssl=1 302w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/modi-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/modi-1.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/modi-1.jpg?resize=272%2C182&amp;ssl=1 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a>Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday hailed the Indian judiciary for redefining environmental jurisprudence to strike a balance between development and ecological protection.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the inaugural function of the International Judicial Conference 2020 &#8216;judiciary and the changing world&#8217; at the Supreme Court, the Prime Minister referred to gender justice and said no country or society in the world can claim to achieve holistic development without it.<\/p>\n<p>He referred to laws on transgenders, &#8216;triple talaq&#8217; and on the rights of &#8216;Divyang&#8217; (persons with disabilities) and said the government has also taken steps to give rights to women in military services and in providing paid maternity leave for 26 weeks to women.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the use of technology, Modi said it can help in procedural management of courts and benefit the justice delivery system to a large extent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition, in the changing times, issues like data protection, cyber-crime pose new challenges for the judiciary,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to recent judicial verdicts by Indian courts, the PM said 1.3 billion Indians have &#8220;wholeheartedly&#8221; accepted them despite there being several apprehensions expressed about the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the occasion, Chief Justice of India S A Bobde said India is a &#8220;melting pot of cultures&#8221; and has assimilated cultures of Mughals, Dutch, Portuguese and English.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Constitution has created a strong and independent judiciary and we have strived to keep this basic feature intact,&#8221; the CJI said.<\/p>\n<p>Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad referred to apex court judgements and said terrorists and corrupt people have &#8220;no right to privacy&#8221; and such persons should not be allowed to abuse the system.<\/p>\n<p>Prasad said governance must be left to elected representatives and delivering judgements should be left to judges.<\/p>\n<p>He said populism should not infringe upon the settled principles of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday hailed the Indian judiciary for redefining environmental jurisprudence to strike a balance between development and ecological protection. 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