Chennai: Panel formed to look into order copies delay

CHENNAI: The Madras high court has constituted a committee comprising Justices M.Sathyanarayanan, N.Kirubakaran, T.S.Sivagnanam and Pushpa Sathyanarayana, the registrar general and other officials of the registry to look into some issues including the delay in getting copies of order from the high court and lower courts and submit a report.

The First Bench comprising Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice Abdul Quddhose constituted the committee while passing orders on a public interest litigation from advocate J.Saravana Kumar, which sought to dispose of his representation made to the Registrar General.

In his PIL, Saravana Kumar submitted that there was delay in all the establishments of the high court and in the lower courts in getting the order copies both in pending cases and disposed cases. When he made enquiries, the staff expressed their difficulties in tracing out the records in the establishment, since there was insufficient facilities like iron almirahs.

In all the sections in the high court, most of the case bundles were kept on the floor and on the tables without proper safety for handling the case bundles. Therefore, he sent a representation to the registrar general. Since, there was no reply, he filed the present petition, he added.