‘Set up panel to define jurisdiction of executive, judiciary’

Issues ranging from setting up of a panel to define the jurisdiction of Executive and the Judiciary, plight of Punjab farmers and the Indo-US defence pact were raised in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. 

Congress member Rajiv Shukla sought the formation of a commission to define the jurisdiction of the executive and the judiciary, saying that there were growing instances of “total non-cooperation” between them.

He said “there are often complaints that judiciary interferes in the work of the executive and the executive does not cooperate with the judiciary. The environment is of total non-cooperation. The situation is such that the CJI had to cry.”

He said while the executive sits on matters of infrastructural requirements and appointments in the judiciary, the judges decide on executive matters. The government should set up a common forum and decide who is going to do what, he said.