‘Why do literate people have to be told to follow the law?’

Delhi | Tuesday | 25th September, 2018

Summary:

“I wonder why do literate people have to be told to follow the law,” asked Justice Lokur. “Unless there is a red light on at a traffic junction, people do not prefer to stop and look,” Justice Lokur observed orally. more-inSupreme Court judge Justice Madan B.

Lokur on Monday opined that education or even literacy alone does not guarantee respect for the law. “But we have fire safety clearance,” Justice Lokur shot back. Senior advocate Ranjit Kumar, assisting the court as an amicus curiae in the sealing matter, told the Bench that the motel had applied for regularisation on September 11..