Yuvraj Dongre
Deputy Editor
Maharashtra/India..
Amravati (Khallar/Representative)
On July 25, the new building of the Civil and Criminal Court and the Additional District and Sessions Court were inaugurated at Daryapur by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Bhushan Gavai.
A large number of lawyers from Achalpur, Amravati, Anjangaon Akola, along with judges of the Bombay High Court and judges of the Nagpur Bench, were present at this inauguration.
However, during this, the Chief Justice worshipped Goddess Saraswati and inaugurated the building of this court by lighting a lamp.
Date. On March 6, 2024, during the ground-breaking ceremony of the District Court building in Pune, Justice Abhay S. Oak, while expressing his views, said that there are two important words in the Preamble of our Constitution, one is secularism and the other is democracy.
At that time, he also pointed out the sentence said by the creator of the Constitution, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, that faith should be based on the fundamental constitutional principle and he had appealed to support in matters of legal fraternity.
While giving guidance, he further said that during the court program, it was said to stop worshiping, instead, bow down before the Constitution.
Agreeing with these views, Justice Bhushan Gavai of the Supreme Court supported the views of Justice Abhay Oak and said in his opinion that an event can be celebrated by planting a tree or watering a tree, as well as by displaying a copy of the Constitution.
Perhaps they have forgotten their own thoughts, or they could not do anything on time, but the big question of the inauguration of the court building has arisen in the midst of ideological confusion.
What kind of worship of Goddess Saraswati is it while inaugurating the temple of justice, not the court, in Daryapur?..
Because this country runs on the constitution, so if instead of the court running on the constitution, the inauguration is being done by worshipping the temple of justice, then this is a condemnable matter, and an equally serious matter.
Therefore, the Chief Justice should consider this serious matter and those who deliberately, in the name of royal etiquette, worshipped the son of Daryapur, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Bhushan Gavai, and the judge of the Mumbai High Court, Nagpur, one of whom is a resident of Valgaon in Amravati district and the other is the son-in-law of Daryapur, and tarnished their image by worshipping them with their hands, under the name of royal etiquette, the Chief District Judge and the President of the Daryapur Lawyers Association and his associates.
It is suspected that the worship was done without considering the executive committee and lawyer members of the Daryapur Lawyers Association. This historic inauguration ceremony was held in the presence of the MP of Amravati, MLA of Daryapur, members of the Bar Council of India, members of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa, as well as the District Judge of Amravati, Achalpur, and judges who came from isolated places, and the Constitution was violated in front of everyone.
The country’s judiciary in the year 1994 in the case of S.R. Bommai vs. Union of India, a 9-judge bench ruled that secularism is a fundamental feature of the Indian Constitution.
Therefore, worship of deities during the inauguration of a secular building like a court is against secularism and has violated constitutional values.
Reaction…
Our humble request to the Hon. Supreme Court and Hon. High Court is to order immediate action against all those concerned who inaugurated the court building by worshipping the images of Saraswati and to reject the inauguration that was done in disregard of constitutional values and to read the preamble of the Constitution in a simple manner and to inaugurate it by planting trees as per the advice of Chief Justice Gavai.
Adv.Vidyasagar G.Wankhade
Daryapur, District Amravati, Maharashtra State, Country India…
