40 evening courts to clear backlog
The state government has proposed to establish 40 evening courts soon to clear the cases pending before the judicial magistrate courts, according to C. Ve. Shanmugam, minister for commercial taxes, registration and law.
“In tune with the chief minister’s objective to establish a court for each district, the government will set up 40 evening courts and holiday courts.
This will entail the government an additional expenditure of Rs 1.7 crore per annum,” Mr Shanmugam said on Thursday.
Wrapping up the demand for grants for his departments, he said that judicial magistrate courts would be established at Lalgudy (Tiruchy district), Nanguneri (Tirunelveli district) and Ulundurpet (Villupuram district) and additional sessions court at Tirupathur (Vellore district) besides a district court at Hosur.
Faulting the previous DMK regime for not effectively tackling the law college incident, he said when a similar incident threatened to loom over the Coimbatore college the chief minister tactfully handled the situation by instructing the principal to transfer the four students instead of suspending them.
For the first time, the chief minister had constituted special courts to try the land grab cases. Mr Shanmugam claimed that the state information commission has complained that the department officials during the previous DMK rule failed to cooperate with the commission in furnishing particulars sought by RTI activists.
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