GANDERBAL: Chief Justice High Court, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, Justice N. Kotiswar Singh, today visited the District Court Complex Ganderbal and reviewed the functioning of the court besides taking stock of infrastructural facilities there.
Chief Justice was accompanied by Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi, Administrative Judge District Court Ganderbal.
On arrival, Chief Justice was given a guard of honor by District Police Ganderbal.
Chief Justice and Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi visited all courtrooms and observed the proceedings of cases. They also visited the office of the District Legal Services Authority, Ganderbal, and the front office of DLSA Ganderbal, and gave certain on spot directions to Judicial Officers and Police Department.
While interacting with the Judicial Officers and Administrative Officers, Chief Justice said that the purpose of visiting this district court complex was to assess the basic infrastructure issues here as courts are important public institutions and need basic facilities including courtrooms, enhanced e-court facilities, facilities for lawyers, public and litigants to function properly. He issued several directions for further streamlining infrastructural facilities in the court.
Chief Justice also reviewed the progress on land acquisition for the new Court Complex.
Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal informed the Chief Justice that 40 kanal of land has already been identified and will be transferred after the completion of codal formalities.
Chief Justice directed the Chief Engineer, R&B to keep DPR ready as per the revenue site plan so that work on the new Court complex could be started at the earliest once land gets transferred to the law department.
Later, the Chief Justice and Administrative Judge of District Ganderbal, chaired a separate meeting of District Bar Association Ganderbal who apprised them of several issues confronting them while discharging their legitimate duties and the Chief Justice has assured them all genuine issues will be looked into priority.
Shahzad Azeem, Registrar General, High Court of J&K and Ladakh, M.K Sharma, Principal Secretary to Chief Justice, Ritesh Kumar Dubey, Principal District and Sessions Judge Ganderbal, Farooq Ahmad Bhat, Registrar Judicial Srinagar, Rafiq Ahmad Rafiq, Chief Engineer, R&B, Shayimbir Singh, Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal, Judicial Officers, Nikhil Borkar, SP Ganderbal, civil officers and Bar Members were also present.
