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11/01/2026

WHEN JUSTICE ARRIVES TOO LATE🧑‍🧒

Last week, I handled two cases involving young women caught in the crossfire⚔️ of parental conflict. In both instances, families were fragmented, and in the absence of extended kin—chittappas, chithis, mamās—the court became the last resort.

Hannah Arendt writes that the human condition is defined by natality: the capacity for new beginnings. Courts, at their best, exist to protect this possibility—to ensure that a child’s life is not foreclosed by adult failures. Yet the encounters I witnessed reveal how fragile this possibility becomes when justice arrives late.

In one instance, a young woman in her early twenties met her estranged father for the first time in years. He had abandoned his responsibilities during her teenage years, and when they finally met through a mediation center, she resolutely refused both reconciliation and his offer of financial support. 🙅The lost years had already shaped her sense of self. Time lost in parenthood cannot always be recovered through late gestures.

In another case, a father who had been prevented from meeting his teenage daughter for three years encountered her in a temple, following the court’s intervention. Their meeting was reported as cordial. While this encounter did not erase the past, it allowed a moment of connection that had been denied.

When a parent abdicates responsibility during formative years, no later legal remedy can fully answer the silent questions left behind.

Courts may step in, but they step into lives where ethical failure has already settled deep. Justice matters—but sometimes, it arrives only to witness what has already been lost.
🔴SO MORE FAMILY COURTS ATTACHED WITH COUNSELLING AND MEDIATION FACILITIES IS THE NEED OF THE HOUR.

🔴COURT FEES CHARGED FOR MATRIMONIAL MATTERS CAN BE INCREASED TO DEVELOP SUCH FACILITIES.

20/12/2016

BENGALURU: At a time when the Centre is pushing the country towards a cashless economy, Chief Justice of India TS Thakur anticipated complex legal issues cropping up in a digitised India and called upon judicial officers on Monday to be well prepared for the changing justice delivery system.

13/04/2016

Justice Sudhakar who wrote the concurrent Judgment held that; “There is a mandate on the Claims Tribunal to deposit the award amount in a Nationalised Bank. Payment out is ordered and cheques are issued to the victims/claimants. These cheques pass through various sieves known and unknown and ultimately, it does not reach the victims/claimants in full measure, less legal expenses and other costs that are justifiable. It was brought to our notice by the Chief Judge, Court of Small Causes and the Registry that in the present system, the insurance companies deposits the cheques with the Claims Tribunal concerned, which in turn deposits the same with the Treasury, and thereafter, it is transferred from the Treasury to a Nationalised Bank by way of fixed deposit. It is thereafter withdrawn for the purpose of settling the award amount. This process consumes a lot of time and leads to delay in disbursal of the award amount. It was stated that this leads to unwanted heartburns at certain quarters and the benefit of the award does not reach the claimants/victims directly in full proportion. The delay in this process, it is stated, is felt more in the Districts. We, inter alia, seek to address the said issue also by way of these directions.” “The above said difficulty can be mitigated if the victims/claimants are called upon to furnish bank account and PAN Card details, if available, so as to ensure that the compensation is deposited in the existing bank accounts of the victims/claimants in their own territory. It also has another advantage, whereby the compensation awarded can be transferred to the bank account of the victims/claimants through the presently available computerized system, namely, Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) or National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT), which is slowly becoming very popular for transfer of funds throughout the country. These methods could be used for transfer of the funds to the Claims Tribunals in relation to the cases in question and thereafter by Direct Benefit or Bank Transfer (DBT) the funds can be electronically transferred to the bank accounts of the victims/claimants, as the case may be.”

Read more at: http://www.livelaw.in/madras-hc-orders-electronic-transfer-compensation-accident-victims/

In a Landmark Judgment a two Judge Bench of Madras High Court has directed that the Compensation to Motor Accident victims/Claimants shall be electronically transferred to the bank accounts of the victims/claimants, as the case may be. The Division Bench comprising of Justices R.Sudhakar and S.Vaidy…

13/04/2016

Supreme Court of India Today has adjourned the hearing in a Petition [PETITION]  filed by High Court of Kerala in the case Malik Mazhar Sultan & Anr. v. U.P. Public Service Commission, seeking permission to fill up the existing vacancies in the cadre of Munsiff-Magistrates in the State. The Case was…

13/04/2016

Chief Justice Thakur wrote the Majority Judgment supported by Justice Gopal Gowda, Justice Banumati dissented.  A Three Judge Bench of Supreme Court of India in State of Kerala Vs. M/S Kerala Rare Earth and Minerals Limited and Others, by a Majority of 2;1 has held that if the State Government propo…

11/02/2016

Delhi district court rules that an unborn child is entitled for maintenance.
"A woman during pregnancy needs extra care and attention and a good diet. She should be free from stress. For the proper care of the unborn child, both parents should ensure a stress free environment and all requirements towards the unborn child should be taken care by both of them. If the father does not partake in the care, he is denying and rejecting his obligation towards his own child. Though the mother is also earning and having a good income, the same does not entitle the husband to shirk from his responsibility when he is also liable to support his child and for any failure and neglect by the father qua the child yet to be born, is certainly Domestic Violence within the contemplation of this special enactment and the object it strives to achieve. "-Mahima Suri Mukherjee vs State and another