Senior Union Secretaries and law officers have agreed that ministries must stop filing appeals against court orders as a routine reaction. They called for strict appeal-filtering rules and better coordination to reduce the Centre’s nearly 7 lakh pending cases.
Senior Advocate Vikas Pahwa sent a strongly worded letter to Sanjeev Sanyal, member of the PM’s Economic Advisory Council, asserting that the judiciary does not block progress but upholds development, constitutional values, and protects liberty. Earlier, Sanyal called it the biggest hurdle to India’s ‘Viksit Bharat’ goal.
