Judiciary is one of the most important organ of the Government and can be considered as a sleeping giant because in more than one occasion it fills the void created by the the other two organs of the Government viz Legislature and Executive. By doing so it reposes people’s faith constitutional setup .It doesn’t mean that the other two organs of the Government are subsidiary to Judiciary but every branch is supreme in its own right and is complementary and supplementary in nature. Without judiciary we would have been like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc. hence it saved the nation from eminent collapse. But at the same time this active role of judiciary is good only in the short run because the Judges lack in technicality of subject matter and they are not elected by the people and hence not accountable to them Judiciary is only a temporary respite or a painkiller and not a permanent solution of the maladies of the system.
Keywords: separation of powers, legislature, executive, judiciary, constitutional setup.
Judiciary: An Alarmbell not a Timekeeper
With the expansionist role of the Government in the developing countries the necessity of judicial control over administration became much more pronounced. The main task of judiciary is to protect individual citizens whenever the official authority encroaches on their constitutional or statutory rights. This necessity of control has given birth to the doctrine Judicial Review, Rule of Law and Separation of Powers. The judiciary can interfere with the administrative orders whenever they cause prejudice to the rights of persons due to lack of jurisdiction, patent error of law and fact and abuse of power
