NEW DELHI: Judges should not exhibit “judicial valour” by passing sweeping orders that encroach on the domain of the executive and legislature as the separation of powers among the organs of the state must be honoured, the Supreme Court has said.A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Amitava Roy said the power to enact a law has not been conferred on the judiciary and the courts cannot add words to a statute or read words that are not there into it and expressed concern over increasing instances of courts dabbling in policy and law-making.Examining an Allahabad HC ruling seeking a specialised cadre of police, the SC agreed with the concern over criminals getting away due to shoddy probe, but said the order exceeded judicial remit and dealt with an issue that was not before the HC. The court set aside the HC order of April this year in which a slew of directions were passed to the state government on police reforms.It had also asked the government to prescribe educational qualifications for recruiting investigating officials. Quashing the HC order, the bench said the directions passed by the court were uncalled for as the issue was not before the court and some of the directions were in the exclusive domain of the legislature. The SC said: “The judges should not proclaim that they are playing the role of a lawmaker merely for exhibition of judicial valour. They have to remember that there is a line, though thin, which separates adjudication from legislation. That line should not be crossed or erased.”“A judge should not perceive a situation in a generalised manner. He ought not to wear a pair of spectacles so he can see what he intends to see. There has to be a set of facts to express an opinion and that too, within the parameters of law,” the bench said. It held the court cannot issue any direction to the legislature to make law because under the constitutional scheme, Parliament and legislative assemblies exercise sovereign power to enact laws and no outside power or authority can issue a direction to enact a particular piece of legislation.“Some of the directions are in the sphere of policy. A court cannot take steps for framing a policy. As is evincible, the directions issued by the HC and the queries made by it related to various spheres which... the court should not have gone into. ..the directions may definitely show some anxiety on the part of judges, but it is to be remembered that directions are not issued solely out of concern,” it said.