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CT.07   ---   Jury   System   in   Supreme   Court   of   India





  DRAFT for Jury System in the Supreme Court of India (citizens need to pass this draft in the Parliament)

 
Jury System in Supreme Court --- Section   1   :   Preamble
  This Act is to create a less nexusprone procedure for citizens by which citizens can run trials in the Supreme Court of India.

Section   2   : Format of the act
2.1 Many of the clauses of this law are procedures or instructions, which may be an order or a request. The clause has list of persons for whom that procedure/instruction is meant for.

Section   3   : Appointments of senior officers and their main powers
3.1 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: PM ; Purpose: Appointment of senior officers] Within 2 days after passing this law, the PM will appoint 1 Registrar for entire Nation and 1 JA (i.e. Jury Administrator) for Supreme Court.

Section   4   : Procedure for citizens to replace Jury Administrator
4.1 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar, Registrar’s clerks] A citizen residing in India can present his ID and specify the serial numbers of (at most 5) candidates he Approves for the position of Jury Administrator in Supreme Court. The clerk will enter the requests in the system and give the receipt to the citizen. The citizen to change his choices any day any month.
4.2 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar] The clerk may charge a fee of Rs 2 to Rs 5 to the citizen.
4.3 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar] The citizen can withdraw his Approvals any day. There will be no fee from withdrawing the Approvals.
4.4 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: PM ; Purpose: Replacement of Jury Administrator] If any candidate is approved by highest number of citizen-voters and over 25% of ALL citizen-voters, the PM will appoint him as new JA for HC within 2 days. If any candidate is approved by over 25% of ALL citizen-voters and his approval is 1% more than existing JA, the PM will appoint him as new JA within 2 days. The PM will not remove JA, previously approved by citizens, unless Approval goes below 20% of ALL citizens.
4.5 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar; Purpose: allowing a citizen to be candidate for JA] Any citizen of India who wants citizens’ Approval for the position of JA can register himself with the Registrar. The Registrar will charge a deposit of Rs 10000 and a monthly fee Rs 5000 per month. There will be no fee after over 2% of ALL citizens of India have approved the candidate.
4.6 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar ; ] Word "citizen" in the context of Approval, means citizen above 18 and registered voter resident in the city

Section   5   : Formation of Grand Jury

[ similar to section5 of "Jury System over Municipality Staff" Act]

Section   6   : Meetings of Grand Jurors and compensation

[ same as section6 of "Jury System over Municipality Staff" Act]

Section   7: Admitting a trial in Supreme Court

7.1 [Procedure for Citizens] If any person, be a private person or a State Prosecutor or National Prosecutor, has complaint against a private entity, District/State or Central Govt or any verdict of the Lower or High Court, he can write to all or some Grand Jurors of the Supreme Court. The complainer must specify the remedy he wishes. The remedy can be
  • cancelling the decision of a Lower/High Court
  • obtaining monetary compensation from the accused If over 15 Grand Jurors, in a meeting, issue an invitation, the citizen may appear. The Grand Jurors may or may not invite the other party.

7.2 [Procedure for JA] If over 15 Grand Jurors declare that there is some merit in the complaint, the JA will call choose 3 States at random, other than the State whose Lower or High Court has already tried this case. The JA will forward the complaint to those 3 States, and ask the Grand Jurors of those district to conduct the trial and give a verdict within 90 days.


Section 8 : Issuing the verdicts

8.1 [Procedure for Home Minister of Central Govt]
  1. If 2 or more out of 3 States' High Courts declare that the verdict given by first High or Lower Court is void, the verdict will stand cancelled.
  2. In case of fine, each High Court Jury will state the fine they think is appropriate, and MUST be less than 50% of wealth the accused owns and must NOT exceed 5 times the damage to the complainer. The median fine will be taken as the fine stated by the Supreme Court.
The Home Minister of India will carry out the above instruction given by the Supreme Court.

Section   9   : Other Details
9.1 The rupee amount used in this text uses July-2000 price levels. The standing committee can adjust the amounts every six months using RBI’s Inflation Index.
9.2 If the officer does not execute a procedure or ignores an instruction stated in this Resolution/Act, a citizen can file a complaint before the Grand Jurors. In case there are is no Grand Jury, the citizens can appeal to the PM to setup a Grand Jury. But under this law, a citizen cannot complaint before PM, Corporators, PM, MLAs, PM, or MPs.
9.3 The Jurors will judge this Act, guidelines, intentions as well as the facts related to the case


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