Chief Justice to be the patron-in-chief
Chief Justice of the Hyderabad High Court will be the patron-in-chief for the state legal services authority
Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Wednesday constituted its State Legal Services Authority in accordance with Section 103 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.
The government has issued the GO stating that the Chief Justice of the Hyderabad High Court will be the patron-in-chief for the state legal services authority and a High Court Judge will be the executive chairman.
According to the GO, a district judge will be the member secretary and eight others, including chairman of the high court legal services committee, state advocate general, principal secretary to finance, secretary to legislative affairs and justice, principal secretary to home, chairman of state SCs and STs commission, chief judge of city civil court and Metropolitan sessions judge, Hyderabad, will act as ex-officio members.
Stengthening of judicial cadre yields results: CJ
Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta of the Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday felt that spending money for increasing of judicial cadre will yield more results rather than spending it on establishment of tribunals and appointing chairmen and members to them.
The CJ was hearing the petitions questioning the jurisdiction of the APAT with regard to service matters of employees of the Telangana government after bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh state along with Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar.
Reacting to the submissions of the counsel for having separate tribunals, Justice Sengupta said the governments have been spen-ding considerable amo-unts in constituting the tribunals and appointing chairmen and members to the tribunals.
The Chief Justice said " if that government diverts that money to the judiciary for strengthen the judges cadre, it will help to make justice deliver system in country become faster, because when compare with European Countries the cadre strength in India is very less ."
Justice Sengupta opined that the tribunals are only adhoc measures as there was no sufficient judicial cadre. The hearing will continue on Thursday.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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