Courts should refrain from policy matters

The role of the judiciary is not to decide on policy or make laws for governance. Our Constitution has wisely decided to separate the judiciary from the legislature, while the job of legislature is to make the laws, the role of the judiciary is to render justice, adjudicate whether these laws are being followed in execution, and prevent governments or individuals from trampling upon fundamental rights. In interfering with the farmers’ laws that the government passed in the Parliament, the apex court is doing exactly what is beyond its mandate, and in choosing to take these types of cases, it is also delaying the important cases in which it is supposed to deliver justice.

“It is a weak society that appeals to judicial paternalism to solve its problems,” said Justice Venkatachaliah.