KAT Bench: CM gives positive response to lawyers’ demand

The positive response of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to the demand for the establishment of the bench of the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal in Kalaburagi has revived the hopes for an early solution to the demand by lawyers, who have launched an indefinite boycott of courts in the region.

The Chief Minister, while replying to a question in the Assembly session at Belagavi, had said that the government would consider the establishment of the bench of the KAT covering the districts coming under the jurisdiction of the Kalaburgi Bench of the High Court of Karnataka.

Municipal Administration Minister Qamarul Islam told

The Hindu from Belagavi that based on the assurance by the Chief Minister, Law Minister T.B. Jayachandra had issued instructions to the Law Department to prepare a proposal immediately for constituting the bench of the KAT at Kalaburagi and place it before the Cabinet at the earliest for the approval of the Chief Minister.

The Chief Minister had stated that apart from the infrastructure for the proposed bench of the KAT in Kalaburagi the proposal would cost the exchequer an additional Rs. 5.27 crore every year.

Mr. Jayachandra, who will visit Kalaburagi to inaugurate the taluk courts in Chitapur and Sedam on Saturday, is likely to make a formal announcement about the decision of the State government to establish the bench of the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal in Kalaburagi.

Siddaramaiah had said the government would consider setting up the Bench in Kalaburagi

The proposal is likely to cost the exchequer an additional Rs. 5.27 crore every year