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With pending cases in courts mounting, the recent launch of the country’s first mobile court at Mewat district in Haryana is laudable. Though only a small step, mobile courts will be of great relief to the rural people as they will be saved from making frequent trips to the towns to attend the hearings, losing out in the process their daily wages.

If the mobile courts can settle the disputes amicably, they will get wide acceptance from the litigant public. These courts should see to that hearings are not unnecessarily postponed. More mobile courts should be started for the rural people.

S. Nallasivan, Tirunelveli

The delays that occur in judicial decision-making are a well known fact. With pending cases on the rise, the introduction of mobile courts should be welcomed.

This move would quicken the process of providing justice to the common man. What needs to be watched is effective regulation.

Pulkit Soni, Indore

The Indian legal system’s grievance redress mechanism has been faltering over the last few years. The launching of mobile court should be welcomed.

But these alone will not suffice. To enable India become corruption-free, the entire legal system needs to be reformed. While the launching of a mobile court in Haryana is a good start, many more such courts should become operational in the near future.

S. Premkumar, Chennai

The initiative is certainly laudable.

If it has taken 14 long years for judgment to be pronounced in as important a case as the Mumbai bomb blasts, one can well imagine the plight of the innumerable trivial cases.

With cases at all levels mounting, the Government must look for ways to bring them down to manageable proportions.

Krithivasan, e-mail

Let us hope that the move is not a political gimmick. If the cases are disposed of at the point of investigation itself the rural folk will not have to travel to district courts and High Courts. The problem should be resolved at the lower courts itself.

If the system is followed strictly it would ease the burden on the higher courts. Let us hope the mobile courts are a success.

Jayshree Suresh, e-mail

With the aim of making the judicial system accessible to people across the country, India’s first mobile court was launched in Haryana.

It would create greater awareness about the judicial system among the rural masses, cut costs for them and render justice at their doorsteps.

It could also reduce the number of appeals and bring about transparency. Steps should be taken for setting up mobile courts across the country.

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