CPM makes case for judicial commission

The editorial then says Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, an eminent jurist, once noted: 8220;The framers of our Constitution took infinite care to provide for an independent and impartial judiciary as the interpreter of the Constitution and as the custodian of the rights of the citizens through the process of judicial review, which gives the mandate to the judiciary to interpret the laws but, if I may humbly submit, not to make them, nor to lay down general norms of behaviour for the Government or to decide upon public policy. The concept is 8216;judicial review8217; and not judicial activism.8221;