Nagaland judiciary segregated from executive

KOHIMA, July 28: The government of Nagaland has segregated the judiciary from the executive in the state through a notification, placing all judicial officers under the administrative control of the Gauhati High Court. Declaring this at a function here on Tuesday Chief Justice Brajesh Kumar asserted that the rule of law, which was the essence of democracy, could be maintained only when the judiciary was independent. Independent functioning of judiciary was necessary as it was the institute to give safeguard to the Constitution and to dispose of justice to the citizens.