Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Permanent Hearing Of Cases Pending In Allahabad HC Pertaining To Western UP Through Hybrid Mode

Preferred by Advocate Anas Chaudhary, the writ petition had also sought for establishing dedicated filing counter and virtual hearing set up in District and sessions court of Western UP for hearing cases through hybrid mode in Allahabad High Court.

It has been argued in the petition that absence of permanent bench in Western UP is denial of access of justice to people of Western UP and both lawyers and litigants find it difficult to travel more than 700 kms.

"Uttar Pradesh is one of the largest States in India having the population about 20.42 crores. The National Judicial Data Grid
shows that approximately 10,26,714 (Ten Lakh Twenty Six Thousand Seven Hundred Fourteen) cases are pending before
Hon"ble Allahabad High Court & its Bench at Lucknow. There are 7 High Courts which are closer to people of Western UP than their own High Court in Allahabad. The distance of various other High Courts closer to Meerut This is a bigger injustice for the litigants of Western Uttar Pradesh that the High Courts of 7 States including Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Haryana, Punjab & Delhi are nearer to Western UP in comparison to Allahabad High Court," the plea states.

 

Case Name: Anas Chaudhary v UOI & Ors