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Dwarka gets a new court complex

Staff Reporter

It would help in speedy delivery of justice: Chief Minister
Courtrooms have been provided on five different floors

NEW DELHI: The Chief Justice of India, Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, on Saturday inaugurated a new district court complex at Dwarka here that has come up on a 9.14-acre plot.

The main court building has four eight-storey interconnected towers that would accommodate 80 courts. The Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, Justice A.P. Saha, and a large number of advocates were present on the occasion.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who presided over the function, said commissioning of district courts across the city would help in speedy delivery of justice to aggrieved parties nearer to their place of residence. “In a fast-changing world,” she added, “it has become necessary to modernise the infrastructure to provide better services.”

With the commissioning of the new district court at Dwarka, Ms. Dikshit said a new era has been ushered in which would benefit the litigants, advocates and visitors. It would also facilitate documentation of records and maintenance of legal issues in a better way.

The Delhi Government, Ms. Dikshit said, was providing all possible assistance for making the judicial system more effective and had recently sanctioned 16,800 posts for district courts at Dwarka and Saket.

As for the court complex at Dwarka, courtrooms have been provided on five different floors while the judges’ chambers are on the first, fourth and seventh floors. The advocates’ block is a nine-storey building with provision for a post office, banks, canteen, judicial lock-up, lawyers’ library, bar room and 345 chambers for lawyers.

The complex also has central air-conditioning in courts, judges’ chambers and the administration block, mechanical ventilation of basement, 12 lifts, complete power back-up, fire alarm system, local area network system for computers, digital clock system, digital display system, a closed-circuit television network and an ISDN PABX telephone system.

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