Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 17: Division Bench of State High Court comprising Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sanjay Kumar Gupta today issued various directions in a Public Interest Litigation filed by Sumit Nayyar seeking security of court complex.
When the matter was taken up, counsel for the respondents submitted that out of an amount of Rs 627.38 lakh, only a sum of Rs 100 lakh has been sanctioned and released to the Public Works (R&B) Department, which has already started the construction of the boundary wall around High Court and District Courts Complex.
It was further submitted that 300 meters of boundary wall has already been constructed and the remaining work shall be completed within a period of three months from today. However, Senior Advocate Sunil Sethi with Advocate Sumit Nayyar appearing for the PIL submitted that the respondents have installed only 24 CCTV cameras in the High Court Complex at Jammu and no CCTV camera has been installed in the District Courts Complex, Jammu where more than 100 CCTV cameras have to be installed.
It was further submitted by the senior counsel for the petitioner that fire extinguishers have also not been installed. “Neither judicial lock-ups nor any separate room for storage of ammunition has been constructed. Even the machine for swiping the electronic security cards has not been installed”, the counsel for the petitioner said.
In response, Rohit Kapoor, Additional Advocate General along with Chief Prosecuting Officer, Aliq Ahmed Dar stated that two scanners have already been sanctioned and X-ray baggage scanners shall be installed within a period of one month from today at the points from where the litigants and the advocates enter District Courts premises.
With regard to remaining aspects, DB asked Additional Advocate General to seek instructions and make a statement in this regard.
At this stage, senior counsel for the petitioner submitted that some senior citizens and differently abled persons use facility of lift in the High Court premises. However, on account of power failure at several times, the lift gets stuck up in the absence of power back-up as such inverter is required to be provided to make the lift functional.
Upon this, Division Bench directed Chief Engineer, Mechanical Division of the State Government to ensure that an inverter is installed within a period of 15 days from today in order to ensure smooth functioning of the lift.
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