'Lok Adalat aims to bring justice to every home': CJI DY Chandrachud

Delhi: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud addresses the commemoration of the Special Lok Adalat in the Supreme Court of India.

He says, " ...A very senior secretary from the Govt of India and former civil servant...said that he never knew that Supreme Court deals with such small cases because we are so used to looking at the Supreme Court dealing with the all the big ticket cases...what is lost to so many people are the kind of small work we do in the Supreme Court...When the Constitution was made by stalwarts like BR Ambedkar, they did it with a mission...this was a court which was being set up in a poor society where there was an absence of access to justice...idea behind the establishment of this institution was...this would be a court reaching out to the lives of common citizens...purpose of Lok Adalat has been to take the justice to the homes of people..."