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AS INTRODUCED IN

Bill No. 197 of 2016

THE HIGH COURT AT ALLAHABAD (ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT BENCH AT BANDA) BILL, 2016 By

SHRI BHAIRON PRASAD MISHRA, M.P.

A BILL to provide for the establishment of a permanent Bench of the High Court at Allahabad at Banda.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic of as follows:— 1. This Act may be called the High Court at Allahabad (Establishment of a Permanent Short title. Bench at Banda) Act, 2016. 2

Establishment 2. There shall be established a permanent Bench of the High Court at Allahabad at of a permanent Banda and such Judges of the High Court at Allahabad, being not less than five in number, Bench of High Court at as the Chief Justice of the High Court may from time to time nominate, shall sit at Banda in Allahabad at order to exercise the jurisdiction and power for the time being vested in that High Court in Banda. respect of cases arising in the districts of Banda, Chitrakoot, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Jalaun, 5 Jhansi and Lalitpur. STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS The demand for establishment of a permanent Bench of the High Court at Allahabad in the Bundelkhand region of State of has been pending for a long time but the said demand has not been fulfilled. The High Court at Allahabad is heavily burdened and lakhs of cases are pending before that High Court. The delay in disposal of cases is resulting in hardship for the people living particularly in Bundelkhand region of the State. People of the region have to suffer on account of travelling long distance and incurring expenditure for attending their pending cases in the High Court at Allahabad. The Bill, therefore, seeks to establish a permanent Bench of the High Court at Allahabad at Banda. A permanent Bench of the High Court, if established at Banda, would go a long way in providing much needed relief to those who are not in position to bear the burden of expenditure on account of travelling to attend the hearings of their cases at the High Court at Allahabad. Hence this Bill.

NEW DELHI; BHAIRON PRASAD MISHRA July 5, 2016

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A BILL

to provide for the establishment of a permanent Bench of the High Court at Allahabad at Banda.

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(Shri Bhairon Prasad Mishra, M.P.)

GMGIPMRND—1430LS(S3)—26-07-2016.