Union Budget 2020: Cinderella treatment once again for judiciary

While others have lobbyists, this is one arm of the state which is left to fend for itself

It was natural for everyone to anxiously look for pleasant surprises in the Union Budget. Unsurprisingly, the one segment that does not get excited from the yearly exercise is the judiciary, which has been ignored for decades. Former chief justices of India have lamented this neglect, one even wiping tears in public, pointing out that the allocation for this sector is normally around 0.2 per cent of GDP. The present Chief Justice S A Bobde and his brother judges did not speak about this curious disregard in their speeches last week in Delhi.  The head of judiciary’s main plea to