Judicial activism has helped the poor

The present CJP is to retire in a few weeks’ time after completing his term of office. We witnessed display of judicial activism at its peak during his stint as the CJP and it would be interesting to see whether or not his successor-in-office also maintains the same tempo. Undoubtedly, the vested interest as well as the errant politicians, bureaucrats and rulers, who considered themselves as sacred cows and were seldom called on the carpet in the past by the judiciary over their misdeeds were unhappy whenever the judges of the Apex court bared their teeth to them. The common man was happy because he found in the higher courts at long last an outlet where he could vent his spleen on the erring administrators. The supreme court proved itself for him a state institution which not only listened to his grievances patiently but redressed them too and pulled up the erring officials of the state also in the process.
Needless to say when the common man does not get justice from government functionaries he is left with no choice but to knock the door of the higher courts for justice. The phenomenon of judicial activism was unheard of in the distant past and the reason for it is that then the executive was not as unresponsive to public requirements as it became in the recent past.
POSTSCRIPT: The government has withdrawn non-career diplomats working as ambassadors abroad . As a matter of policy only career diplomats should be given ambassadorial assignments as they are experienced enough for the job having already gone through the stints of first, second and third secretaries in the foreign missions abroad. Non-career diplomats should be posted in rare cases. There are many other ways available to the political rulers for obliging their blue-eyed boys.