Mathews J. NedumparaPresidentNational Lawyers Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms

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2nd March 2026

A National Call Against the Wilful Denial of Justice to MSMEs and the Poor, and for Judicial Reforms

Magistrates across the length and breadth of this country pass orders directing the forceful dispossession of MSMEs from their properties, thereby depriving millions of people of their jobs, livelihoods, and even homes in gross violation of the MSMED Act and the notification dated 29.5.2015.

This notification prohibits banks and financial institutions from resorting to any recovery action except in the manner permitted by the committee contemplated under the notification — a committee that not a single bank or financial institution in this country has ever constituted.The recovery actions against MSMEs under the SARFAESI Act, IBC, etc. are undeniably illegal and void.

MSMEs are entitled to relief from the courts as a matter of right, not charity. However, they are denied justice for reasons that are wholly inconceivable, right from the lowest forum to the highest.This is not something peculiar to MSMEs alone. It may appear unbelievable, but the courts in this country do not consider it necessary to follow the principles of natural justice when it comes to the demolition of structures belonging to slum dwellers. Courts appear to be against the poor and the less privileged. Those who raise their voices against corruption and injustice are silenced. This unfortunate scenario must be brought to an end.

I therefore call upon all right-thinking people of this country, particularly those who are denied justice — MSMEs, the poor who are denied bail, and the like — to join me in the pursuit of justice, nay, in the fight against the wilful denial of justice.NLC, which I lead, has almost 70,000 members. Our members are part of many other groups. If this message is shared widely in other WhatsApp groups, on Facebook, etc., it will reach every lawyer, litigant, nay, every informed citizen of this country.

My humble initiative for reforms through NLC can, in a short span of time, turn into a national movement for reforms in the judiciary which will abolish the Collegium system where the judges appoint themselves, the Senior designation system where the judges anoint their kith and kin as senior advocates, the uncle judge syndrome, the draconian law of contempt which suppresses dissent, and other malaises of the justice delivery system, and render it a truly democratic institution accountable to the people of this country.