The Delhi High Court Wednesday gave an interesting remark on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for not sanctioning funds for the basic requirements of district courts, which are generating huge revenues through collection of fines, traffic challans and court fees, stating that AAP govt wanted to kill golden egg-laying goose. A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad remarked, that Rs 115 crore collected through virtual traffic fines by district courts. What do you, the Delhi government want? You want to kill the goose that lays the golden egg?, quite interesting expression.
The high court was informed by Reetesh Singh, Officer of Special Duty (Examination), that in 2018-19, the district courts here collected fines of Rs 80-crore and sold court fees worth 90-crore, which were deposited with the Delhi government. In 2019-20, fines of Rs 89-crore were collected and court fees of Rs. 102 crore were sold and from July 2019 to October 12, 2020, traffic challans of Rs. 115-crore have been collected by the traffic courts.
To this, the bench said that in spite of the aforementioned finances generated by the district courts, they are being starved of funds for the basic requirements of running a court which cannot be countenanced. The bench also criticized the Delhi government for making the subordinate judiciary that is run from pillar to post - to get funds sanctioned for recruitment of supporting staff which has come to a grinding halt, and asked whether it wanted judicial officers to conduct proceedings from chaupals!
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