Rahul Gandhi hits out at Centre, says legal system collapsing due to pending court cases

Rahul Gandhi has accused Ravi Shankar Prasad of "peddling fake news" instead of strengthening the collapsing legal system.

New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday lambasted Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad over a huge number of pending court cases, alleging that the legal system was collapsing due to it.

Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter and expressed his concerns over millions of pending cases in various courts of the country and the acute shortage of judges.

Hitting out at the Union Law Minister, Rahul charged him with "peddling fake news" instead of strengthening the collapsing legal system.

Rahul's attack came after Prasad accused the Congress of hiring the services of controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica, which has been accused of harvesting data stolen from Facebook, in previous elections.

The BJP's charge has been denied by the Congress, which instead accused the BJP of using the services of the firm.

''Legal system collapsing under Pending Cases: Supreme Court 55,000+, High Court 37 Lakh+, Lower Courts 2.6 Crore+. Yet, a staggering 400 High Court and 6,000 Lower Court judges not appointed, while Law Minister preoccupied peddling fake news,'' Gandhi said on Twitter, using the hashtag #JudiciaryDemonetised.

Justice K M Joseph, overturned President’s rule in Uttarakhand in 2016.

When his name was proposed for the Supreme Court, Modi ji‘s ego was hurt.

Approval of over 100 judges, cleared for the Supreme Court and various High Courts are now on hold.#JudiciaryDemonetised

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 24, 2018

The Congress and the BJP have been engaged in a war-of-words over-using the services of the controversial data firm.

The Facebook data scandal erupted after a whistleblower revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to Trump's 2016 campaign, accessed personal data from 50 million users of the website without their knowledge, and might have kept that data even after the social media giant told the company to delete it.

Prasad recently insisted that the Congress has used the services of Cambridge Analytica and said several media reports about the opposition party using the services of the firm had appeared in October and November last year and it never denied those stories till the BJP raised the issue. 

(With Agency inputs)