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The CJI, during a visit to his native village, also suggested decentralisation of the judiciary to deliver justice at the doorstep of litigants

Chief Justice of India BR Gavai (Image: PTI file photo)
Chief Justice of India BR Gavai has said he will not accept any government post after retirement and will instead spend more time in his village.
Speaking after being felicitated at Darapur, his native village in Maharashtra’s Amravati district, CJI Gavai said: “I have decided that I will not accept any government position after my retirement…I will get more time after retirement, so I will try to spend more time in Darapur, Amravati and Nagpur."
Justice Gavai is set to retire in November this year.
Earlier on Friday, a huge crowd of people welcomed the CJI as he arrived in the village. He paid floral tributes at the memorial of his father, former governor of Kerala and Bihar RS Gavai, and attended a programme to mark his death anniversary along with some family members. Gavai also laid the foundation stone for a grand gate to be constructed on the way to Darapur, named after RS Gavai.
The CJI, during his visit, also suggested decentralisation of the judiciary to deliver justice at the doorstep of litigants.
Speaking at a function after inaugurating a court building in Daryapur town, CJI Gavai said as head of the Judicial Infrastructure Committee, he had prepared a model of setting up new taluka and district-level courts. “It (work on his proposal) is happening, but red tapism in courts and government is the same," he noted.
The CJI maintained that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his predecessors Eknath Shinde (June 2022-November 2024) and Uddhav Thackeray (November 2019-June 2022), have been positive about judicial infrastructure works and adequate funds are being provided.
He also told the gathering that he had come to Daryapur not as the Supreme Court chief justice, but as a resident of the district.
CJI Gavai, who assumed the top office in May this year, noted he has always advocated decentralisation of the judiciary so that justice is delivered at the doorstep of litigants.
He also advised junior lawyers to undergo apprenticeship before charting out their own career course. “If one wants to argue in courts without any experience and own a Mercedes or BMW in six months, then one needs to understand their motive," he cautioned.
CJI Gavai advised fresh law graduates not to allow status and prestige associated with lawyers to go to their heads. “I have seen junior lawyers not offering seat to their seniors. Similarly, there was an instance where a junior lawyer fainted in court when he was fired by the judge. Both judges and lawyers are equal partners. The chair (representing legal authority) is to serve people and power associated with it should not be allowed to go into their heads," he advised.
(With PTI inputs)
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