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| Bar files PIL for declaring Saddar Court as ancient monument | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 7: A Public Interest Litigation, demanding declaration of Saddar Court complex Srinagar as ancient monument, has been filed in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
The PIL has been filed by the Kashmir High Court Bar Association, stating that some structures in the complex are more than a century old and have great historical importance.
"Respondent no.1 (State of J&K through Chief Secretary) is obliged under law to declare the entire complex as an ancient monument within the meaning of section 3 of J&K Ancient Monuments Preservation Act," the Bar association has said.
It said that members of the Executive committee met three Judge of the High Court on October 25 and apprised them about the difficulties faced by the lawyers and requested to make the courts functional at Sadder Court complex or at Mominabad but they ruled out, saying that the complex has been declared unsafe by the Engineering Department and the construction (of new lower courts building) at Mominabad is still incomplete.
"After the meeting, the three Judges visited Sanatghar Srinagar and earmarked certain rooms and halls for lawyers. In the meanwhile, a rumor was however, floated by certain vested interests that actually Sadder Court complex has been sold to some Waseem Chaya by the High Court, in league with the executive committee of the Bar Association under a secret deal."
The alleged deal was floated to be reason for which High court has not agreed to the starting of the subordinate courts from the Sadder court complex.
"The allegation being totally false, unfounded, baseless, scandalous and mischievous deserves all sorts of condemnation," the PIL said.
Notwithstanding the rumor, it is a fact that some two years before the Bar Association had requested the Chief Justice to get the Sadder Court Complex, Srinagar declared as an ancient monument because the courts are to move to Mominabad once the construction was completed.
"Till date, no such declaration has been got issued by (Registrar General Of High Court) from the Government nor any steps have been taken to preserve and protect the complex as a result of which, the Sadder Court complex looks like a deserted place today with no one interested to preserve and protect it as an ancient monument or a place of heritage," it said.
Apart from Chief Secretary and Registrar of the J&K High Court, the respondents in the PIL, Which has not been admitted by the court yet, include Director Archeology, Senior Superintendent of Police Srinagar and SHO Police Station, Maisurna. |
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