Supreme Court Not In Favour Of Opening Separate Bench Outside Delhi: Centre

New Delhi:

The concept of opening a separate bench of the highest courtroom exterior Delhi has not discovered favour with the Supreme Court docket of India, the federal government knowledgeable Parliament on Wednesday.

In a written reply to a query within the Lok Sabha, Union Minister for Legislation and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad stated representations had been acquired occasionally from varied quarters for institution of Supreme Court docket benches in varied components of the nation.

“The Legislation Fee, in its 229th Report, had additionally advised {that a} Structure Bench be arrange at Delhi and 4 cassation benches be arrange within the northern area at Delhi, the southern area at Chennai/Hyderabad, the japanese area at Kolkata and the western area at Mumbai.

“The concept of a separate Bench of Supreme Court docket exterior Delhi has not discovered favour with the Supreme Court docket of India,” he stated.

The minister was requested whether or not the federal government had acquired any proposal from legal professionals’ associations to open a Supreme Court docket bench in Chennai for the comfort of the folks of the southern states and to scale back money and time on litigation.

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