Oudh Bar Affiliation to once more elevate excessive court docket Lucknow bench’s jurisdiction concern
The contentious concern of realigning jurisdiction of the excessive court docket between Allahabad and its Lucknow bench is again once more. Growing the territorial jurisdiction of the excessive court docket’s Lucknow bench is a long-pending demand of legal professionals of the state capital.
The Oudh Bar Affiliation (OBA) of the Lucknow excessive court docket bench has been demanding to carry Bareilly, Moradabad and Kanpur divisions underneath the Lucknow bench’s jurisdiction. These divisions are underneath the Allahabad excessive court docket as of now. (FOR REPRESENTATION)
At the moment, 16 out of complete 75 U.P. districts are underneath the jurisdiction of the excessive court docket’s Lucknow bench. The Oudh Bar Affiliation (OBA) of the Lucknow excessive court docket bench has been demanding to carry Bareilly, Moradabad and Kanpur divisions underneath the Lucknow bench’s jurisdiction. These divisions are underneath the Allahabad excessive court docket as of now.
The OBA has convened a statewide conference of the district bar associations within the state capital on December 1. These are the bar associations which have prolonged assist to the legal professionals of Lucknow on this concern.
The OBA has been demanding enlargement of jurisdiction of the excessive court docket’s Lucknow bench for the previous a number of years. Excessive court docket legal professionals within the state capital have boycotted work on the difficulty on a number of events.
Nonetheless, legal professionals of the Allahabad excessive court docket have been opposing any change in excessive court docket’s jurisdiction. Attorneys of western Uttar Pradesh have additionally prolonged their assist to the OBA on the difficulty.
“Until we get a separate bench of the excessive court docket in western Uttar Pradesh, legal professionals of the area need their jurisdiction to be hooked up with the Lucknow excessive court docket,” mentioned Anand Mani Tripathi, president, OBA.
“Western Uttar Pradesh comes underneath the Allahabad excessive court docket’s jurisdiction. If a litigant of western U.P. has to go to Allahabad excessive court docket, they must attain there passing by means of Lucknow,” mentioned Tripathi.
“Kanpur comes underneath the Allahabad excessive court docket’s jurisdiction whereas its twin city Unnao falls underneath purview of the Lucknow bench. How are you going to justify this,” requested Tripathi.
Kanpur is simply 72 km away from the state capital whereas its is 199 km away from Prayagraj (previously Allahabad). “We now have convened a statewide conference on December 1 demanding enlargement of territorial jurisdiction of the Luckow bench,” Tripathi mentioned.
The OBA is an apex physique of legal professionals of the Lucknow excessive court docket with round 5,000 members.
What Jaswant Singh panel mentioned
In March 1981, the then Uttar Pradesh authorities had really useful shifting jurisdiction of some districts from the Allahabad excessive court docket to its Lucknow bench for the comfort of litigants.
Thereafter, the central authorities in September 1981 constituted the Jaswant Singh Fee to submit its report on the Uttar Pradesh authorities’s proposal and requirement of a separate bench of the excessive court docket in western U.P.
In its report, the Jaswant Singh Fee really useful relocation of Bareilly and Moradabad areas from the Allahabad excessive court docket’s jurisdiction to the Lucknow bench. It had additionally really useful a separate bench of the excessive court docket in Agra.
Districts underneath HC’s Lucknow bench
Lucknow, Unnao, Bahraich, Ayodhya (Faizabad), Sultanpur, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh, Barabanki, Gonda, Lakhimpur Kheri, Hardoi, Sultanpur, Ambedkar Nagar, Amethi, Balrampur and Shravasti.
