The brand new statue has been put in within the judges’ library within the Supreme Court docket.

New Delhi:

The blindfold has come off a brand new Girl of Justice statue within the Supreme Court docket and the Structure has changed the sword in one among its fingers to ship a message that the regulation isn’t blind within the nation, and nor does it symbolise punishment.

The blindfold was meant to symbolize equality earlier than the regulation, implying that courts can’t see the wealth, energy, or different markers of standing of those who seem earlier than it, whereas the sword symbolised authority and the ability to punish injustice.

The brand new statue within the judges’ library within the Supreme Court docket, commissioned on the orders of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, has the eyes open and the sword changed by the Structure in its left hand in a transfer that can also be being seen as an try to go away the colonial legacy behind, simply as was completed by changing the colonial period legal legal guidelines just like the Indian Penal Code with the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. 

Based on prime sources related to the Chief Justice’s workplace, Justice Chandrachud believes that India ought to transfer ahead from the British legacy and that the regulation isn’t blind, it sees everybody equally.

“Due to this fact, the Chief Justice stated that the type of the Girl of Justice needs to be modified. He stated the statue ought to have the Structure in a single hand and never a sword, so {that a} message goes out to the nation that she dispenses justice in keeping with the Structure. The sword is a logo of violence however courts ship justice in keeping with constitutional legal guidelines,” a supply stated. 

The scales of justice in the precise hand, the supply added, have been retained as they symbolize steadiness in society and the concept that details and arguments by either side are weighed by courts earlier than arriving at a conclusion.