Hyderabad, February 06:Asking the courts to implement a minimum core approach to help the needy, Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia today said the paramount duty of judges is to adopt ways to enhance social welfare.
He also favoured a government policy to provide food security to people below the poverty line.
“It is enforceability, which is the very essence of rule of law, that is important,” he said at the 17th Commonwealth Law Conference here earlier inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The Chief Justice urged the Prime Minister to consider establishing the Indian Regulatory Service, on the lines of IAS and IPS, with experts in regulatory laws.
Delivering his address on “Emerging Economies and the Rule of Law: Challenges and Opportunities”, he said, “It was the paramount duty of judges to adopt an approach that would enhance social welfare.
–PTI