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Plea against Bench in capital

Staff Reporter

Litigants from Malabar will have to travel to Thiruvananthapuram

KANNUR: The People's Council for Civil Rights here urged the State Government to abandon its move to set up a High Court Bench in Thiruvananthapuram. In a memorandum submitted to Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan here on Friday, the council said the resolution of the State Cabinet urging the Central Government to establish the Bench was unreasonable.

It would affect the 1.37-crore population of Malabar region which comprises six revenue districts.

If the Bench were to be set up in Thiruvananthapuram for three southern districts having a population of 70.5 lakh, all the cases involving the State Government would have to be transferred to the proposed Thiruvananthapuram Bench. Litigants from the Malabar region would have to travel to the capital city in connection with cases related to the Government, the memorandum said. The move would also impose a financial burden on the people.

The memorandum said the Government was a party in more than 60 per cent of the cases now pending in the High Court. Moreover, the new High Court building would be rendered useless if all those cases were transferred to Thiruvananthapuram. It urged the Government to take initiatives to set up a Bench in Kozhikode or Thalassery.

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