Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Supreme Court Chief Justice N.V. Ramana to reiterate three demands “of the people of Tamil Nadu” — to maintain social diversity and social justice in the appointment of judges in the Supreme Court and the High Courts, to establish regional benches of the Supreme Court and to declare Tamil as the official language of the Madras High Court.
In his letters to the Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of India, Mr. Stalin referred to the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court and High Courts and contended that for the past few years, “we have been witnessing declining representation from all the sections of the society in the higher judiciary, leading to a ‘diversity deficit’. He underlined that “judicial diversity was fundamental to the quality of judging”.
“A broad-based, heterogeneous group of judges representing various sections of the society as a whole alone can reflect the views and values of society as a whole, particularly on issues involving historical, traditional, linguistic and cultural matters. This is because they would provide wider perspectives, since the group of Judges would naturally interpret and enforce law based on their multi various backgrounds,” Mr. Stalin contended.
