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`Set up High Court Bench'

Staff Reporter

Corporation convenes all-party meet on Wednesday to discuss the issue

Kozhikode: The city corporation council unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday, demanding that a High Court Bench be set up in Kozhikode to benefit people in the six districts of Malabar.

Mayor M. Bhaskaran, who chaired the meeting of the council, said that an all-party meeting would be called on Wednesday in this regard.

He would lead a delegation to Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan and submit a memorandum in the State capital.

A convention of the residents of Kozhikode would be held at the Tagore Centenary Theatre here on September 12.

Earlier, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) councillor P.V. Sivadasan, who moved the resolution, said that there was a move to establish a High Court Bench in Thiruvananthapuram. This proposal would make life miserable for the people of Malabar since all cases related to Government matters would be shifted to the capital. Now, the people need to go only up to Kochi, he said.

The Janata Dal (S) member P. Kishenchand; the Democratic Indira Congress-Karunakaran (Left) councillors, P. Mammed Koya and U.T. Rajan; and the CPI (M) members P. Divakaran and P.T. Rajan spoke in support of the resolution.

This is the fourth demand of the council in recent times. Last week, it adopted a resolution urging the State Government to set up the Indian Institute of Technology proposed in the State in Kozhikode district.

On earlier occasions, the councillors had adopted resolutions asking the Government to upgrade the Government Medical College Hospital here to the status of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences and demanded that Kozhikode be made the headquarters of the railway division in the State.

Mr. Bhaskaran said that he would call a meeting of meat dealers' association at his chamber at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday to discuss the grave issue of unauthorised beef and mutton stalls in the city.

Meat dealers were not bringing animals for butchering at the slaughterhouse of the corporation at Kothi. The allegation that there was no veterinary surgeon was not true, Mr. Bhaskaran said.

Mr. P.T. Rajan, who is the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Health and Education, said that unauthorised slaughterhouses would be closed down.

The Congress member Manakkal Sasi, through a calling attention motion, raised the non-functioning of the slaughterhouse at Kothi.

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