By Sanjeev Sirohi
MEERUT: The attorneys of West Uttar Pardesh have requested the Supreme Courtroom of India to take suo motu cognizance of it and direct acceptable motion of making a Excessive Courtroom Bench in any of the districts of West UP!
The final bastion and ray of hope for the greater than 10 crore folks of West UP is the Supreme Courtroom which is the topmost courtroom of India and which should take suo motu cognizance of probably the most compelling and most reliable demand for a Excessive Courtroom Bench in West UP as it’s empowered additionally underneath Article 142 of the Structure to take action and because it has executed additionally in so many different far much less urgent instances!
In line with a number one English nationwide newspaper, on January 19, the Particular Secretary of the UP State Authorities had written to the Director Basic of the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom over taking needed motion as per the foundations relating to the institution of a HC Division Bench in West Uttar Pradesh however within the subsequent 24 hours, the Particular Secretary made a U-turn and cancelled his letter.
Gajender Singh Dhama who’s a former President of Meerut Bar Affiliation very rightly identified that, “A Bench is a necessity for a easy purpose: virtually 54% of all instances that attain the HC come from West UP’s 22 districts. They (HC attorneys) are involved about their enterprise however not concerning the plight of litigants. For the final couple of years, a litigant must be bodily current within the Allahabad HC for photographs and different paperwork. The Lahore HC is nearer to Meerut than the Allahabad HC. Litigants need to journey 700 km to achieve the HC to get a Bench.” Most disgusting certainly!
It can’t be denied now that governments additionally acknowledge the necessity for a Bench however they succumb in entrance of the unrelenting stress of the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom attorneys. That is simply not executed and is simply not acceptable. Even the incumbent President of Meerut Bar – Mr KP Sharma laments with a heavy coronary heart that West UP accounts for the utmost variety of pending instances in any a part of the nation and owes additionally for greater than half of the full variety of pending instances of Uttar Pradesh and nonetheless has not even a single Bench in any of the districts!
It have to be requested: Why this Bench subject in West UP has been hanging hearth since final 77 years is most mind-numbing and is completely incomprehensible? The purpose actually is: Denial of even a single Bench to West UP is antithetical to the very idea of “speedy justice” and “justice at doorsteps”. It’s a stark reminder of how a lot injustice has been perpetrated so chillingly, callously and repeatedly by not permitting even a single Excessive Courtroom Bench in any of the districts of West UP in final 77 years!
Nothing on earth might be extra unlucky than this irrefutable undeniable fact that whilst India is celebrating its seventy fifth “Nationwide Republic Day”, we see that Uttar Pradesh which has most inhabitants greater than 25 crores and so additionally has most MPs each in Lok Sabha and in Rajya Sabha and so additionally has most MLAs amongst all of the States and so additionally has most villages a couple of lakh and so additionally has most variety of pending instances in Excessive Courtroom greater than 10 lakh instances and right here too greater than half of the pending instances are from West UP.