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The Saket Court Complex is finally opening its doors. The much awaited Courts Complex was to open in December 2009, last year.
The Times of India has reported the new building will have 26 Civil and Criminal Courts that will cater to the South and South-East districts. The seven-storey building has 80 courtrooms and 92 chambers for Judges with all infrastructural facilities. It also has 666 lawyers' chambers and 128 residential houses for the Judges. It is promoted as being Asia’s biggest court complex.
The Saket Court Complex comes in-built with a temporary lock-up for the under trials, till the time a permanent judicial lock-up is constructed.
With the new Saket Courts Complex the litigants of South-Delhi will no longer be travelling to the Patiala House Court to attend their cases. Previously, 42 Civil and Criminal Trial Courts of New Delhi, South and South-East districts were located in the Patiala House Courts. With the new addition of the Saket Courts Complex, only New Delhi district will stay in the Patiala House Courts.
The Hindustan Times has reported about a dengue scare in the Saket Court Complex premises. Three people including two Judges have been reported to be suffering from dengue fever.
This is quite a bad start to the much awaited Court Complex which got pushed from three deadlines, starting from December 2009 to February 2010 and finally stretching it to June-July 2010.
According to sources, several complaints were made to Public Works Department (PWD) officials about the poor drainage system in the area. However, nothing changed till the Judges fell ill, reportedly due to dengue fever.
Speaking with lawyers who visited the Saket Courts Complex today, Advocate Gaurav said, “There is stagnant water at some places.”
An amount, in excess of Rs. 500 crore (approximately $11 million) has been spent on the infrastructure of the Saket Court Complex. One fails to understand, how a Court Complex which boasts of having state-of-the-art infrastructure and drainage system, to prevent waterlogging, is having bouts of dengue erupting!!!
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- 1. "whats going on with the state of affairs in courts in India? this is quite shameful...to the extent that we anyway lack judges and now they are getting infected at new state of the art court premises... its high-time, wake up MCD and PWD and do some work.". Suchi, Pune, Maharashtra
- 2. "People should understand govt. is making its best efforts to give justice at doorsteps thats why new courts are opend.as far as water logging and dengu is concerned it will soon be corrected once courts will be fully operational and bar will further look.". Mahavir Singh, Delhi
- 3. ""This is quite a bad start to the much awaited Court Complex which got pushed from three deadlines, starting from December 2009 to February 2010 and finally stretching it to June-July 2010."I am not sure what this statement really means. How is dengue infection connected to a bad start to a court complex. Newsreports (Link) say even Justices Swatanter Kumar and Radhakrishnan of the Supreme Court were diagnosed with dengue. So what's the big deal? ". Anonymous, (Unknown City)
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