Main building of Madras High Court to get CISF cover for one more year

September 21, 2017 12:52 am | Updated 07:39 am IST - CHENNAI

Taking no chances:  CISF personnel on the Madras High Court campus.

Taking no chances: CISF personnel on the Madras High Court campus.

The Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered extension of CISF cover for its main building, housing the court halls, for one more year from November 16 when the security cover would elapse as per orders passed early this year. It, however, left the issue of extending the cover to the entire court campus to the discretion of the Security Committee comprising senior judges of the court.

The first Division Bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice M. Sundar passed the extension order on a suo motu writ petition that had been taken up by the court in November 2015 following largescale agitations by lawyers inside the court building. Though Additional Solicitor General G. Rajagopalan insisted on extending the CISF cover to the entire campus, Advocate General Vijay Narayan said it involved financial implications.

It was former Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul who insisted on getting the court building secured by the CISF though the State government objected to it and went up to the Supreme Court only to lose the case. After the central force took over the security of the court buildings, the first Division Bench led by him had passed a series of orders extending the cover periodically by either a year or six months.

“The judges must feel secure while administering justice and thus, proper security has to be arranged to prevent such incidents, which not only disrupt the functioning of the court but can result in security breaches when courts, especially a court like the present High Court and its Bench, are concerned with sensitive matters,” Mr. Justice Kaul had said in its first order directing the State to pay for the central security force.

0 / 0
Sign in to unlock member-only benefits!
  • Access 10 free stories every month
  • Save stories to read later
  • Access to comment on every story
  • Sign-up/manage your newsletter subscriptions with a single click
  • Get notified by email for early access to discounts & offers on our products
Sign in

Comments

Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.

We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.