Bharadwaj promises separate HC for Haryana

CHANDIGARH: The Union Law and Justice Minister, Hansraj Bhardwaj Tuesday  assured the Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder  Singh Hooda that the process was on to set up a separate High Court  for the state of Haryana and all interests of the State would be taken  care of.   




This assurance  was given by the Union Minister  when the Chief  Minister reiterated his demand for a separate High Court for Haryana  at a function in Rohtak where  the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana  High Court, Mr Justice Vijender Jain laid the foundation stones for  the buildings of a bar complex, judicial record room and judicial  malkhana.

The construction of these buildings would cost an estimated  expenditure  of over Rs 1.77 crore.   While presiding over the function, the Union Law Minister described  knowledge as a greater purifier and said that our lawyers and  advocates should  update their  legal knowledge for the welfare of  their clients. He said that an advocate having complete knowledge of  his profession could become an asset for the society and the nation.  

He said that he would spare no pains in providing a strong  infrastructure to the judicial complexes equipped with all modern  amenities like a library full of a number of good books and  computer.   He assured the District Bar Council, Rohtak that the judicial complex  of Rohtak would be developed as one of the most magnificent judicial  complexes in the country.   The Union Minister said that our Constitution had given a greater  responsibility to the judiciary for safeguarding the rights of the  people. He said that a country which had a strong judiciary could only  survive a strong democracy.   Appreciating the efforts of the Chief Justice of Punjab and High  Court Mr Justice Vijender Jain, he said that Justice Jain had been  making sincere efforts in providing justice to a number of people
 through legal aid clinics and providing improved infrastructure to  various judicial complexes.  

Bhardwaj was all praise for the Chief Minister,Bhupinder Singh  Hooda, who had been working constantly for developing Haryana as a  number one state in the country. He said that we were proud of honest  and clean image of Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda in the country.   

The Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, Vijender Jain  also addressed the audience and said that all judicial officers of the  state were satisfied with the functioning of the state government in  providing a number of facilities in various judicial complexes. He  appreciated that there was no interference of the state government in  recruitment of the judicial officers or officials in various courts of  the state.   

Describing Haryana as a progressive state, the Chief Justice said  that all judicial complexes had been equipped with modern facilities  which had enabled our courts to provide justice speedily to the  people. The rule of law is the backbone of our democracy and only full  faith in the judiciary can make a strong democracy. The Chief Justice  directed the judicial officers to dispose off the cases within a  period of six months which were pending for the last more than five  years. He said that the process of the criminal trials should be  completed within a period of two years.   

He said that we would make Haryana a number one state of the country  in settling various pending cases in different courts. Mr Justice Jain  also directed the legal fraternity to organize mobile courts in the  backward areas of the state and all efforts should be made to settle  the cases brought in these courts on the spot.   Hooda directed the officers that all these three  buildings of which the foundation stones laying ceremony had been  performed today, should be completed within a record period of one  year.

He informed that the state  government had sanctioned Rs 63 crore  for the development of judicial complexes in the state. He said that  the state government would spend Rs 162 crore for the development of  different judicial complexes in Haryana during the next ten years.   Hooda appreciated the functioning of the Lok Adalats in the state  and said that 2914 Lok Adalats had been organized in different parts  of Haryana where a number of cases had been settled on priority basis  with a view to give quick and cheap justice to the people. He said  that for disposing off pending cases in the state, 31 judicial  officers for subordinate courts were under training and 34 more such  officers would also be recruited.  

 Hooda said that we have full faith in our judiciary as only a  strong judiciary is the backbone of strong democracy and our advocates  must help the needy and poor persons in providing them cost effective  and quick justice.    Justice S.D. Anand, Administrative Judge of Rohtak Session  Division,Ved Prakash Kadian, President, District Bar Association  and  S K Sardana, District and Sessions Judge Rohtak also spoke on  the occasion.