The Finance Minister two days ago has minced no words in saying that the judiciary was trampling all over the constitution’s basic mosaic of the separation of powers and he was angry about the judiciary’s repeated lunges into executive and legislative terrain.
The Constitution gave the legislature, the executive and the judiciary primacy in their own domains, but the courts have been stomping all over legislative and executive territory, making laws rather than just interpreting them.
It is worth noting that the laundry list of court interventions mentioned above pertain to just the last two or three months and one can only surmise what damage one Supreme Court and 25 high courts can do over an entire year and the courts are not supposed to make the law.
Presently anyone claiming to represent the public interest can file a petition to change the law, damage corporate profits, and then someone else can file another PIL saying the loan given to company so-and-so has gone bad, and now this must also be the court’s duty.
