It is definitely most deeply anguishing to see that lawyers of 22 districts of West UP out of total 30 districts with more than 10 crore people have been so unitedly agitating for a High Court Bench with full discipline since last about 80 years of independence and I myself have been personal witness to this most sacred agitation since last about 25 years in Meerut yet most disappointingly to no avail! As recently as on 20 September, 2025, the lawyers of West UP of 22 districts protested and held dharna and protested against the step-motherly treatment accorded to West UP with some young lawyers even attempting to pour kerosene on themselves in frustration but saved in time by others as has happened many times in past also! This is definitely most disgusting indeed and presents a most disturbing picture of the sorry state of affairs yet Centre is not doing anything on this!
It must be mentioned here that the lawyers of few districts under Agra are protesting separately and they too are demanding nothing but just High Court Bench in West UP! When I just landed in Meerut in 2001, the lawyers of West UP were on 6 months strike and in 2014-15 also we saw 6 months strike apart from strike every Saturday since May 1981 till September 2025 due to most unjustified denial of even a single High Court Bench to West UP apart from so many padyatras and hunger strikes etc!
Leave alone creating two High Court Benches in Uttar Pradesh as in Karnataka in 2008 first as High Court Circuit Benches and then in 2013 as permanent High Court Benches for just four and eight districts only at Gulbarga and Dharwad respectively, Centre for 30 districts has most appallingly kicked out the most strongest recommendation that had been made by Justice Jaswant Singh Commission headed by a former Supreme Court Judge appointed by Centre itself for creation of High Court Bench in West UP at Agra in mid 1980s while having just no compunction to create High Court Bench in Aurangabad in Maharashtra for just 9 districts which already had multiple High Court Benches in Nagpur for just 10 districts and at Panaji for just 2 districts! As if this was not enough, we see most recently fifth High Court Bench in Maharashtra at Kolhapur in Western Maharashtra has started functioning from 18.08.2025 for just 6 districts with shockingly only just 1.64 lakh people! What is happening in our country? If this is not biggest cheating by Centre in Indian history then what else is? It goes without saying that how much discrimination Centre is perpetrating most ruthlessly and most mercilessly is quite palpable from the most irrefutable fact that the total population of Karnataka is just 6 crore and it has separate High Court and multiple High Court Benches just like Assam with just 4 crore people and Madhya Pradesh with just 7 crore people and West UP with more than 10 crore people is being denied even a single High Court Circuit Bench! The population of Maharashtra is less than half of Uttar Pradesh’s population yet has so many High Court Benches! It is known all too well that Dr BR Ambedkar who is the key architect of Constitution had himself recommended separate Statehood for West UP and Justice Jaswant Singh Commission separate High Court Bench only to be dumped by Centre in the nearest backyard without any remorse or regret!
It must be asked: Why only a handful of elite States like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka and Assam alone have multiple High Court Benches even though 230th Report of Law Commission of India headed by former Supreme Court Judge – Late Dr AR Lakshmanan had strongly recommended multiple High Court Benches for States most uniformly and on what basis? Who is master minding such atrocious, arbitrary, abysmal and arrogant discrimination between different States and different regions like we see in UP it is only Eastern UP which has both High Court at Allahabad and a High Court Bench in Lucknow? So also, Andhra Pradesh with just 7 crore population was partitioned in 2014 and Andhra Pradesh left with just 4 crore people who has created High Court Bench in Kurnool and High Court in Amaravati and one more at Vishakhapatnam is under consideration and Telangana with just 3 crore people with High Court at Hyderabad!
Of course, what is going on in India since last about 80 years in distribution of High Courts and High Court Benches and High Court Circuit Benches in different States and different regions does not represent by any reckoning a true democratic system rather it symbolizes horrendous dictatorship of the highest order worst than what even Hitler did without being held accountable in any manner as we saw when hilly areas of undivided UP for whom Justice Jaswant Singh Commission had recommended two High Court Circuit Benches in Dehradun and Nainital in early 1980s yet not one created and when people agitated with many sacrificing their invaluable lives then the same Centre bestowed not just separate Statehood itself but separate High Court and separate Capital also and no Punjab and Haryana formula of same High Court and same Capital! Does Centre want this to happen in West UP also? Even Mayawati herself as Chief Minister had recommended creation of West UP as separate State to be named “Harit Pradesh” which is all on record!
Why is Centre so rigid in not allowing even a single Bench in any place other than at Lucknow created when Jawaharlal Nehru was PM in July 1948 where it was just not needed at all as it is so close to Allahabad High Court! To borrow JL Nehru’s words himself, “Anything rigid and permanent stops the nation’s growth.” How can Centre ever dare to gloss over or discard what Nehru had himself said so plainly? It merits just no reiteration that too much rigidity ossify into permanent obstacles.
It merits just no reiteration that what is even most frustrating to note is that not a single Judge of Supreme Court ever dared to speak out even till date against this most derisive, divisive, dubious, despicable, discriminatory, derogatory, dangerous and dastardly double standards when even people of hilly areas had to travel thousands of kilometers like slaves all the way till not even Lucknow which has High Court Bench since July 1948 so close to Allahabad High Court itself in Eastern UP but right uptill Allahabad nor ever deemed it fit to take suo motu cognizance of it which is worst betrayal of Constitution, deepest burial of justice and most horribly worst mockery of poorest litigants but on November 9, 2000 people of hilly areas got relief as it got separate High Court and separate Statehood itself but litigants of West UP even 25 years later are still suffering unmitigated endless sufferings even though population of Uttarakhand at time of creation was just 88 lakh and of West UP is more than 10 crore which is more than nearly all States in India except UP of which it is a part and one or two other States and here too margin is not much with no census having been conducted since 2011! This is the prime reason that the latent belief is now slowly and steadily gaining ground among the people that only option now left is that West UP must be given a separate High Court itself by partitioning it from Uttar Pradesh just like Uttarakhand was done about 25 years ago! If Centre still soon does not take any damage control measure then it has definitely no one to blame for agitation for separate Statehood for West UP gaining traction even among common people but its ownself! So the ball is now ostensibly in the court of Centre itself!
Why Supreme Court never dares to lash out ever at this most brazen, blind, brutal, blatant and baseless discrimination perpetrated in distribution of High Court Benches in not only different States but also different regions like in UP it is only Eastern UP alone which has both High Court and High Court Bench leaving other regions completely unrepresented including hilly areas as long as it formed part of UP, West UP, Purvanchal and Bundelkhand? Why the hell Supreme Court has tolerated most absurdly for so long and is still tolerating such most worst form of dastardly, divisive and double standard absurd discrimination perpetrated against different regions of same State like in UP or between different States and so also in allocating Statehood to different States?
What has left me completely shocked, absolutely stunned, totally shaken and shattered to the hilt just like other lawyers of West UP and litigants is that even after nearly 80 years, Centre is least bothered to do anything serious on such a most burning issue directly affecting more than 10 crore people living in West UP especially litigants! It is well settled and well known all over that this core, compelling and critical issue of setting up a High Court Bench in West UP has been on the table since independence yet most unfortunately keeps getting pushed back to the oblivion! How long will Centre keep on neglecting intentionally such a most serious issue? 78 years have already flown under the bridge of time!
What I find most deeply unsettling and most perplexing to note is that West UP has not even a High Court Bench nor even just a High Court Circuit Bench and still Supreme Court says nothing! When will it speak up? It must speak up now fearlessly in the interest of justice so that the poorest litigants of West UP stands to gain the most and don’t keep on suffering endlessly with no end in sight! No denying or disputing it!
To put it bluntly: The bogey that West UP needs no Bench needs to be most strongly debunked! Rather I will ask: What was the dire need for a High Court Bench in Lucknow so near to Allahabad where High Court itself is located yet it has High Court Bench since July 1, 1948? The point to reflect on is: How long will West UP be mercilessly deprived from having even a single Bench? The most critical question is: How much more time will Centre senselessly keep purchasing to settle this long pending High Court Bench issue in West UP knowing it fully well that West UP owes for majority of pending cases of UP and contributes 80 percent to State’s economy yet litigants from this region are made to suffer the most as both High Court and a single Bench are in Eastern UP only and nowhere else and most intriguingly West UP attached with not even Lucknow but most farthest with Allahabad which means litigants of 30 districts of West UP have to travel 600-800 km on average so far away and yet no one bothers not even CJI himself as I have never heard him saying anything like he said for Kolhapur which is just about 382 km from Mumbai where High Court is located?
It is definitely as clear as broad daylight that which State needs more High Court Benches! It is UP which tops the State list in having maximum number of pending cases in India and here too it is West UP which owes for majority of the pending cases of UP as was conceded even by Justice Jaswant Singh Commission itself yet UP has just one Bench so close to Allahabad High Court at Lucknow and lawless Bihar has not even a single Bench despite its population being more than most of the States except UP! This is the real tragedy and real worst discrimination in distribution of High Court Benches in different States! How can any CJI ever decide to remain wholly silent on this shocking, shameless and senseless discrimination? Denial of even a single Bench to West UP is wholly untenable and needs to be given a Bench at the earliest without any more dilly-dallying now!
Why is Centre so ambivalent and inimical in taking any proactive step that goes a long way in resolving this key issue at the earliest? One can’t fathom that why Centre has behaved so partially, so irrationally and so undemocratically that the most populated State of India with maximum number of pending cases was given only one Bench and that too very close to Allahabad itself and worst of all attached litigants of West UP and hilly areas of undivided UP with not even Lucknow which is more than 230 km earlier but right uptill Allahabad as if India was still being ruled by colonial Britishers with even Lahore in Pakistan closer to West UP as compared to Allahabad High Court? This is exactly that has led to catastrophic results and culminated in partition of UP into UP and Uttarakhand in 2000! Will any democratic country behave in such autocratic manner?
Is this democratic or autocratic style of functioning? Centre’s approach in this regard in last nearly 80 years has been most diabolically outrageous and has to be most strongly condemned! Why these elected representatives are behaving like monarchs depriving the people from having easy and affordable justice at doorsteps is truly incomprehensible?
Why this High Court Bench issue in West UP has most mysteriously remained in limbo for so long? Why can’t Centre bury the hatchet and move forward to balance the regional imbalance of Eastern UP having both High Court at Allahabad and a single Bench at Lucknow so close to each other and West UP inspite of owing for majority of pending cases of UP for whom Justice Jaswant Singh Commission recommended permanent seat of High Court Bench yet even after nearly 50 years not even a Bench created nor even a Circuit Bench created! What I find most deeply unsettling is that even now we see that neither the Supreme Court nor Centre is ready to open its eyes and take most concrete action to dismember the most historical, Himalayan blunder committed about 80 years ago! Denying West UP and Bihar even a single High Court Bench is not just illogical but also deeply insensitive, deeply flawed and most deeply discriminatory also that has gone unnoticed, unchecked and unaddressed for so long!
I must add here that it is certainly high time now and the worst discrimination that has been perpetrated in judiciary itself since last 75 years of completion of Constitution must be definitely addressed at the earliest! Frustration stems in minds of litigants of West UP due to no Bench in this region inspite of such a huge population of more than 10 crores more than majority of the States in India and majority of the countries in the world! High Court Benches are tools to be used to strengthen speedy justice and “justice at doorsteps” as recommended most strongly and most sagaciously by the 230th Report of Law Commission of India prepared under Chairmanship of former Supreme Court Judge Late Dr AR Lakshmanan and other legal experts for all States and High Court Benches are not some gold ornaments to be just locked up in few elite States alone as per ruling elite own whims and fancies as we see most unfortunately and most disgracefully since last nearly eight decades!
There was no e-filing facility for hilly areas of undivided UP from 1947 to November 9, 2000 till Uttarakhand was created as a separate State as litigants relentlessly bore extreme hardships and wasted huge money in just travelling alone leave alone other expenses but more than 10 crores people of West UP are still suffering endlessly! Yet not one Judge either in Allahabad High Court or even Supreme Court which is the last bastion as ray of hope for the poorest litigants could ever dare to summon the moral courage to speak up by taking suo motu cognizance of this long lingering High Court Bench issue in West UP!
One is totally clueless as to why Centre and concerned States are not taking any meaningful and decisive steps to create more High Court Benches not even in big States like UP and Rajasthan as both have only one Bench and lawless Bihar most shockingly has none even though the 230th Report of Law Commission of India in 2009 headed by former Supreme Court Judge and a very eminent jurist also even though the 230th Report of Law Commission of India in 2009 headed by former Supreme Court Judge even though the 230th Report of Law Commission of India in 2009 headed by former Supreme Court Judge and a very eminent jurist also – Late Hon’ble Dr AR Lakshmanan who most strongly advocated for creation of more High Court Benches in different States without any discrimination and yet even after 16 years on ground we see that only few elite States like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Assam alone have exclusive privilege of having multiple High Court Benches? To cut a long story short, the question is whether Centre will ever try to dismantle the totally unjustified monopoly of few elite States in having multiple High Court Benches? To say the very least, at least Supreme Court and CJI must step in because CJI is Chief Justice of India and not Chief Justice of Maharashtra only!
No wonder, in the India Justice Report 2025 that was released on April 14, 2025, we see that States like Karnataka with population of just 6 crore which got VVIP treatment by being given multiple High Court Benches at Dharwad and Gulbarga for just 4 and 8 districts only created in 2008 which already had High Court Bench in Hubli rank among the best States right on top of all States and West UP with 30 districts and more than 10 crore people yet not even a single Bench and UP with more than 26 crore population which is more than Pakistan at 25 crore has just one Bench only and it is a no-brainer that it has been listed in worst category just like lawless Bihar not having even one Bench and Rajasthan just one among others also figuring in the worst category of States! Five south states rank among top performers as for just 3.5 crore people of Telangana, separate High Court created on June 2, 2014 and so also for Andhra Pradesh with just 4 crore people and we know that apart from High Court at Amaravati, the Andhra Pradesh Assembly just some recently approved a High Court Bench in Kurnool for just 8 districts and State Government it is being reported is now seriously contemplating one more at Visakhapatnam but for Punjab and Haryana still there is no separate High Court for both the States and so no wonder it figures in middle performer category States!
Still why Parliament never ensures that big States like UP, lawless Bihar and Rajasthan have multiple High Court Benches even after more than 79 years of independence? Parliament cannot be absolved ever from its most notorious stupidity in doing nothing to set the record straight on this count and bringing them at least on parity with few elite States who have multiple High Court Benches like Karnataka even though its population at 6 crores is more than 4 crores less than West UP alone at 10 crores and more than 20 crores less than UP at 26 crores! No wonder, it is right at the top in the India Justice Report 2025!
But it really speaks volumes of how much ruthless, rampant, raw and rotten discrimination our Centre and so also our Parliament that is both legislature and executive has ensured is perpetrated on big North Indian States like UP, Rajasthan and Bihar in judiciary itself in High Court Benches distribution which makes me hang my head in shame! It would be foolhardy to ignore the ground reality which speaks for itself. Yet Supreme Court also never takes suo motu cognizance of it and as we saw in November 2018 when an Apex Court Bench led by the then CJI Mr Ranjan Gogoi conceded the dire need of a High Court Bench in West UP while listening to a PIL by a woman lawyer KM Chitra dismissed the PIL saying that it was for Centre to decide! Is Supreme Court waiting for another 100 or 200 years for Centre to take action on this?
Will creation of more High Court Benches ensure or hinder the rule of law? No prizes for guessing the clear writing on the wall! Why the most legitimate voice of the litigants of West UP for a High Court Bench has been throttled for so long despite West UP owing for majority of pending cases of UP and contributing to more than 80% of State’s economy? The crux of the problem is: Centre is least interested in taking any pains to seriously resolve this long pending issue which definitely has to be roundly and most strongly condemned! A High Court Bench in West UP will better ensure that police and civil administration in West UP comply as directed as it will be much closer! It certainly brooks no more delay any longer now!
By any reckoning, there cannot be ever a bigger tragedy than this that for 79 years of independence we see that West UP has been denied even a single High Court Bench even though it is West UP which owes for majority of the pending cases of UP which is highest not just in UP but is also highest in any other region of India yet mercilessly deprived from having even a single High Court Bench which is undoubtedly most disastrous! What is even most worst and most disgusting is that the litigants of 30 districts of West UP have been most atrociously and most mercilessly attached with not even Lucknow where a High Court Bench exists since July 1948 in Eastern UP but attached most stupidly with Allahabad which is more than 230 km away from even Lucknow which means the poorest litigants of 30 districts of West UP have to spend more and travel whole night and nearly a day about 700 to 800 km in average by train to attend court hearings which is plainly unconstitutional just like litigants of hilly areas of undivided UP had to travel thousands of kilometers all the way again till Allahabad in true dictatorial style making the worst mockery of our Constitution and so also of poorest litigants till Uttar Pradesh was partitioned and this was the major reason which political parties never like to concede and judiciary also has been reticent in taking any action in this regard even though it took suo motu cognizance recently in cheating in Mayor elections as we saw in Chandigarh some time back! CJI must speak on this also like he spoke for High Court Bench in Western Maharashtra for just five districts and act also!
It merits just no reiteration that the trials and tribulations that litigants of West UP have to face due to no Bench in this region even though majority of pending cases are from West UP are simply unending yet most atrociously we see that Centre has done absolutely just nothing to resolve it and media too has utterly failed to highlight it effectively! The step-motherly treatment that has been humiliatingly accorded to West UP which owes for majority of pending cases of UP and contributes more than 80 percent to State’s economy is most disgraceful and most saddening indeed! No denying it!
What really intrigues me most is why so unjustly West UP has been deprived from having even a single Bench? Centre has repeatedly assured creation of Bench in West UP but in stark contrast when it comes to action, nothing done in last nearly 80 years! Most disgraceful, most disheartening, most derisive, most discriminatory double standards and so also most disbelieving to see how unabashedly Centre has turned a blind eye to such a most serious and compelling issue directly affecting the poorest litigants!
How long will a solution to this Bench issue in West UP just keep lurking in the shadows? To put it plainly, Centre’s absolute inaction on this front has to be most strongly and roundly condemned! On a serious note, the people’s cry for a High Court Bench in West UP cannot be ever silenced!
With a very heavy heart, I want to say that Centre has been most biased in denying West UP even a single Bench! You don’t need a telescope to see that which State should have maximum High Court Benches as it is the most populated State of India with maximum number of pending cases! How long will Supreme Court be in hibernation mode on this count with 79 years already flown under the bridge of time? It has to be acknowledged with grace that denial of even a single High Court Bench to West UP which owes for majority of pending cases of UP which is also highest for any region in India is not only most dangerous and most deleterious but also most disastrous, most despicable and most discriminatory indeed!
Let us still fervently hope that some Judge in Supreme Court will definitely one day take suo motu cognizance of this worst discrimination of distribution of High Court and High Court Benches in different States and different regions right under the nose of Supreme Court most shamelessly, most senselessly, most surreptitiously and most sinisterly by not allowing even a single Bench in UP in last 78 years even though UP has maximum pending cases among all the States and majority of pending cases from West UP yet not even a single Bench even though Justice Jaswant Singh Commission appointed by Centre itself recommended permanent seat of High Court Bench in West UP about 50 years ago and address it in the best possible convincing manner! It brooks no more delay any longer now!
My point is very clear: This definitely cannot under any circumstances continue endlessly! I am of the considered view that Centre is taking far too long for deciding in an “open and shut” case of High Court Bench in West UP! What I find really most troubling and so also most demoralizing is that this key issue directly pertains to judiciary and it is a grave violation of what is envisaged in Article 14 about equality in Constitution yet Apex Court also has most astoundingly and inexplicably desisted in last nearly 80 years of independence in taking a proactive stand on it and in ensuring that West UP has a High Court Bench so that the litigants don’t keep on suffering endlessly!
But I still nurture a glimmer of hope that someday sooner or later Supreme Court will definitely muster the requisite courage and conviction to honestly speak up most candidly on this also just like it spoke recently on more than half of Judges seat in Allahabad High Court lying vacant and ensure that a High Court Bench is created in West UP at the earliest as was directed also so very commendably by Justice Jaswant Singh Commission appointed by Centre itself about 50 years ago and yet not created till date! I just don’t buy any rubbish arguments that is forwarded by Centre as lame excuse on one pretext or other for denying West UP even a single High Court Bench even though majority of pending cases are from West UP yet what is worst is that even Supreme Court has done absolutely just nothing at all in this regard for last about 80 years without any bona fide justification for not taking any action in such a serious matter affecting so many litigants who are made to undergo untold hardships due to no Bench in this region!
To put it gently, it would not be completely off the mark to say that it is West UP where High Court should now be shifted as majority of pending cases are from West UP as was conceded by Justice Jaswant Singh Commission also! But what I find most deeply unsettling and so also most perplexing to note is that West UP has not even a High Court Bench nor even just a High Court Circuit Bench and still Supreme Court says nothing! When will it speak up? It must speak up now fearlessly in the interest of justice so that the poorest litigants of West UP stands to gain the most and don’t just keep on suffering endlessly with no end in sight for no fault of theirs!
It is most shocking that UP which is among the largest States, has maximum population – more than 26 crore as CM Yogi Adityanath and so also PM Narendra Modi always so very proudly claims, maximum districts – 75, maximum constituencies – 80, maximum MPs – 80, maximum MLAs – 404, maximum PM including Narendra Modi who represents Varanasi as an MP, maximum pending cases – more than 11 lakh in Allahabad High Court and here too West UP accounts for more than half of pending cases as noted by Justice Jaswant Commission about 57% and now after so many decades the percentage of pending cases in West UP has gone substantially much higher, maximum cases in lower courts about to touch 1 crore, maximum Judges both in High Court – 160 and also in lower courts, maximum vacancies of Judges both in High Court and also in lower courts, maximum members in UP Bar Council more than 1 lakh and which is also the largest Bar Council in the world as claimed in the website itself of UP Bar Council yet the former Chairman of UP Bar Council – Darvesh Yadav who was the first woman to get appointed to this post was murdered cold blooded right in court premises in Agra which is again in West UP on June 12, 2019 by pumping bullets on her head and stomach, maximum poverty, maximum villages more than one lakh the exact number being 107040, maximum gram panchayats at 74626, maximum fake encounters killings, maximum custody killings, maximum dowry cases, maximum bride burning cases, maximum cases of human rights violations, maximum robberies, maximum dacoities, maximum cases of crime, loot, arson and riots and here too West UP tops with Saharanpur riots, Meerut riots, Muzaffarnagar riots tarnishing our international reputation to the extent that former UN Secretary General Ban ki Moon termed UP as “crime and rape capital” of India and just recently we see after Bahraich even Fatehpur in West UP coming in news for shameless communal disturbances most recently, maximum undertrials in all age groups and what not yet Centre till now in September 2025 from July 1948 when a Bench was created in Lucknow which is so close to Allahabad and where it was just not needed at all is not prepared to create even a single bench for not just West UP but for the entire UP nor even ready to attach 30 districts of West UP with more than 10 crore population which is more than majority of States with Lucknow? How can Centre ever deny, distort or dispute such most irrefutable facts? What exacerbates matters is Centre stonewalling any attempt to create a Bench in West UP or any other part of UP except Eastern UP! The takeaway is clear: Centre is damn bothered to address it seriously!
To conclude, CJI is certainly Chief Justice of not just Maharashtra but of India as a whole. He must act impartially definitely by ensuring that a High Court Bench is created in West UP also with more than 10 crore people and 30 districts where it is needed most before he hangs his boots and not just that only one State that is Maharashtra which already had multiple High Court Benches is armed additionally with one more Bench at Kolhapur with just 6 districts and 1.64 lakh people and now even for 3 districts of Pune sixth High Court Bench is being demanded with lawyers of Pune going on indefinite strike from August 1! If a High Court Bench is not created soon in West UP then the demand for just Bench will definitely soon snowball into separate Statehood itself as happened in Uttarakhand saying that high time that West UP be given separate High Court itself and separate Statehood itself for which Centre and Centre alone will definitely be fully and squarely culpable for it! There can be just no denying or disputing it!
Much water has flown down the bridge since India became independent in 1947 but the most stark truth is that even nearly 80 years later in September 2025, we see that West UP is without a High Court Bench which is definitely most deplorable, most dangerous, most self destructive and most discriminatory that even Supreme Court has dared not to ever intervene even when UP was undivided! Why Supreme Court has tolerated such dastardly discrimination in distribution of High Court Benches in different States and in different regions for so long? If this by itself is not the biggest tight slap on Constitution and Dr BR Ambedkar, then what else is?
Why only a handful of elite States like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka and Assam alone have multiple High Court Benches even though 230th Report of Law Commission of India headed by former Supreme Court Judge – Late Dr AR Lakshmanan had strongly recommended multiple High Court Benches for States especially big? Why Supreme Court never dares to lash out ever at this most brazen, blind, brutal, blatant and baseless discrimination perpetrated in distribution of High Court Benches in not only different States but also different regions like in UP it is only Eastern UP alone which has both High Court and High Court Bench leaving other regions completely unrepresented including hilly areas as long as it formed part of UP, West UP, Purvanchal and Bundelkhand? Why the hell Supreme Court has tolerated most absurdly for so long and is still tolerating such most worst form of dastardly, divisive and double standard absurd discrimination perpetrated against different regions of same State like in UP or between different States and so also in allocating Statehood to different States?
It is a no-brainer that if it still does not act soon in ensuring complete impartiality in creation of High Court and High Court Benches and so also High Court Circuit Benches in different States and different regions then it will be squarely held responsible for denigrating, denuding and destroying its own reputation in eyes of people of being totally impartial in dispensation of justice! There can be thus just no gainsaying that Apex Court and so also Centre must definitely always remember itself the permanent validity of the time-tested dictum that, “Justice must not only be done but also must be seen to be done.” No denying it!
Sanjeev Sirohi