The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari inaugurated the “50th Anniversary celebrations of Bar Association of India” at a function here yesterday. Delivering inaugural address he said that the contributions of the common law tradition, the Constitution, and the judiciary to consolidating the rule of law in India have been more than negated by unfair and lax enforcement, discriminatory application of laws and filtered access to the justice system. This strikes at the root of democracy and erodes respect for law among citizens who are at the receiving end of non-enforcement of their rights and discriminatory application of the laws, and without the clout to secure either of them.
