Sept.9th- A division Bench of the High Court comprising ACJ Adarsh Goel and Justice A.K. Mittal today issued notice of motion to UT Chandigarh Administration for October 13th. on a PIL filed by HC Laywer, H.C. Arora, seeking issuance of appropriate directions to UT Chandigarh Administration to evolve and to evolve and install a fool-proof security system, with modern electronic gadgets/ equipments/ CC TV Cameras etc. etc, as far as possible, on the pattern of security systems installed in the Supreme Court of India, in due consultation with the Hon’ble Punjab and Haryana High Court on Administrative side and the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association, in the wake of yesterday’s bomb blast outside Delhi High Court. Referring to the security system in the High Court, the petitioner contended that “the security system in the Hon’ble Punjab and Haryana High Court is quite lax; any body can enter from Gate No.1 after assuring that he is just to get an affidavit attested from an Oath Commissioner; any body pretending to be a Government officer is getting unrestricted entry through Gates; entry is at will after lunch for all visitors; any mischievous element can just enter the High Court premises after posing as an advocate by wearing a black coat and a white collar band. Laxity in the security system can pose a serious threat to the life and liberty of innocent citizens, including lawyers and the staff of the High Court.” Thus, the petitioner contended “there is dire need to strengthen the security system and to make it fool proof, as far as possible, on the pattern of the Supreme Court of India, after due consultation with the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association and the Hon’ble High Court on its administrative side , so that a security system, fool proof, but with minimum inconvenience to lawyers community, may be set up/ installed.”
Referring to salient features of the security system prevailing in the Supreme Court of India, petitioner stated that it includes “includes (i) permanent passes with photographs to permanent members of the Supreme Court Bar Association or to outside advocates, issued at the instance of the Supreme Court Bar Association; (ii) temporary passes issued at the spot to outsider advocates, after establishing their identity based on voter I. Card, or the Enrollment Card issued by concerned Bar Counsel etc; (iii) temporary separate passes issued in a similar manner to litigants, on the basis of strict proof of their identity; (iv) entry being allowed to petitioners in person, only for the particular Court Room where they have to appear or watch the proceedings of their own cases, where after they have to leave the premises of the Supreme Court; (v) frisking of all visitors, except those with permanent passes, and staff of the Supreme Court of India; and (vi) CC TV Cameras keeping account of activities of all visitors to Supreme Court of India; and (vi) no entry of persons other than lawyers to the Bar Rooms, etc., etc.”
IS THERE NOBODY IN THIS COUNTRY, TO FILE A PIL FOR THE OVER ALL SECURITY OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY?, BECAUSE NO ONE IS SAFE IN THIS NATION, BECAUSE OF ERRONEOUS POLICIES OF THE CARE TAKERS OF THE AFFAIRS OF THIS COUNTRY AND LET THERE BE AN OPEN DEBATE IN THE PRESENCE OF MEDIA MAGNATES IN THIS CONTEXT, SO THAT MEANS, MEASURES & METHODS, TO PROVIDE OVER ALL GENERAL SECURITY TO THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY CAN BE DISCUSSED & DELIBERATED—dr.amritgaur