CJI Sharad Bobde's advice to judges: Never aim for popularity

Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde on Saturday asserted that judging is a difficult task while adding that judges never aim at gaining popularity but only at a resolution of disputes.

"Judging can be a difficult task. Judges do what everybody avoids, which is taking decisions. No judge aims at popularity, the idea is to resolve disputes," Bobde said at an international conference on 'Arbitration in the era of Globalisation' in New Delhi.

Arbitration is a technique to resolve disputes outside the court, by referring them to a neutral party for a binding decision.