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| BAJ opposes conferring powers of registration of documents upon Revenue Officers | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 30: The J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu, convened a meeting of members of its Executive Committee today in Justice Dr. Adarsh Sen Anand, Library, J&K High Court, Jammu, under the Chairmanship of Abhinav Sharma, President, JKHCBAJ.
Two core issues were deliberated in the meeting of Executive Committee were regarding (i) Conferring of powers of registration of documents like Sale deeds, Lease deeds, Mortgage deeds, Gift deeds and other miscellaneous documents upon the Revenue officers by creating a separate department of Registration.
The members strongly opposed the move of taking out the process of registration of documents outside the court premises which would result in grave inconvenience not only to lawyers community but to the public in general as well, in as much as the practice of registration of documents with the assistance of Advocates facilitate the expeditious registration of documents and rules out the possibility of extraneous considerations at the instance of registering authorities.
In order to ensure that public in general and lawyers in particular do not face any inconvenience and element of corruption is not encouraged in the process of registration of documents, It was unanimously decided to ensure that the offices of the registering authorities are housed and located within the court premises.
The members of the Executive Committee threadbare discussed and deliberated in detail the issue of proposed shifting of High Court complex to Raika and the members were of the opinion that shifting of High Court complex from the existing location of Janipur Jammu would cause serious hardships to thousand of lawyers, in as much as majority of the members of JKHCBAJ are working both in the High Court and in the District/ subordinate courts as well.
The members were also of the opinion that shifting of the High Court alone would not cause serious hardships to the Advocates only, but to the general public, litigants as well especially the old age and female litigants. Therefore, JKHCBAJ strongly opposed the decision of the concerned authorities to shift the High Court Complex alone and it shall be ensured that not only the High Court complex is shifted but simultaneously the District Courts & subordinate course also shifted.
It was also decided in the meeting that if a new complex is constructed, sufficient infrastructure shall also be created and established for Institutions like Special Tribunal, Armed Forces Tribunal, Consumers Commission and other statutory Tribunals which would facilitate all the sections of the society including the Advocates and litigants.
It was also decided in the meeting that in case genuine demands of the lawyers of accommodating the registering officers within the court complex and the District and Subordinate courts are not shifted along with High Court, the Bar shall agitate the matter and take it to the logical conclusion. It was also decided to take up the matter with the concerned authorities to ensure that the offices of registering authorities are housed and located in the court complex and further course of action shall be discussed and decided in the next meeting of the Executive Committee schedule to be held on 14-11-2019. |
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