Respect boundaries, Pranab tells judiciary
While emphasising that everything possible should be done to preserve and protect the judiciary, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday cautioned that judicial activism should not lead to erosion of the constitutional principle of separation of powers. The separation of powers was equally a principle of restraint. While the exercise of powers of the legislature and the executive was subject to judicial review, the only check on the judiciary’s exercise of powers was self-imposed discipline and self-restraint, he said, delivering the valedictory address at the sesquicentennial celebrations of the Madras High Court.