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Assembly: Judges of the Madras High Court, from right, P. Murugesan, M. Jaichandren and R. Sudhakar discussing a point with Collector T.N. Venkatesh, extreme left, after laying the foundation stone for the new combined court buildings in Karur on Sunday. KARUR: Advocates should sink their differences and work as a bridge to connect the administration, judiciary and the police in delivering the goods for the public, Judge of the Madras High Court, R. Sudhakar, said here on Sunday. “Let there be amity. There should be brotherhood and cooperation among the pillars of power to ensure that public enjoy the fruits of the institutions,” Mr. Justice Sudhakar said after laying the foundation stone for the new combined court buildings in the Collectorate master complex on Dindigul Road. The total outlay for the project is Rs.10 crore. While the new combined court buildings are to come up there at a cost of Rs.9 crore and the judicial officers’ quarters are to be constructed at a cost of Rs. One crore. Stating that the occasion was the beginning of a series of development projects to be undertaken by the High Court and the State ushering in a new era of judicial infrastructure development activities and to provide the people of the State a platform to resolve their disputes by rule of law, Mr. Justice Sudhakar added that the State Government allotted Rs.100 crore as phase I for improvement of subordinate courts, construction of court buildings and clear pending projects. Under the current proposals Karur gets the combined court buildings at a cost of Rs.10 crore, he observed. On the advocates’ plea for bar chambers in the court buildings, Mr. Justice Sudhakar said that their ideas and suggestion would be conveyed to the authorities and suitable arrangements would be in place not just in Karur but also in other places. Justice M. Jaichandren, who hailed from Karur district, called upon the advocates to clear the pending cases expeditiously. “It’s not right to blame the judiciary alone for the huge backlog of cases. Judges numbers have not been increased commensurate to the increase in population and the rise in number of litigations,” he observed. Stating that it was the people’s faith in judiciary that was important in the huge number of litigations pending in the courts, the judge said that alterative disputes resolutions had helped bring down the number of cases pending before the courts. Mr. Justice Jaichandren said that while over 3.10 lakh cases were pending before the Madras High Court in 2005, the numbers rose to 3.42 lakh the next year and then went up to over 3.64 lakh in September 2007. As of now over 4.26 lakh cases were pending before the Principal Bench and the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, he pointed out.
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