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Every rupee spent connected judicial infrastructure by the Centre arsenic good arsenic the State governments whitethorn not springiness them monetary returns but it would surely assistance successful strengthening nationalist assurance connected the judiciary, said Justice Surya Kant successful Chennai connected Sunday (October 26, 2025). He is the astir elder justice of the Supreme Court and adjacent successful enactment to beryllium the 53rd Chief Justice of India.
He inaugurated a renovated 126-year-old practice gathering which erstwhile housed the prestigious Madras Law College but had present been annexed to the Madras High Court, and said, the Madras High Court stands gangly among the country’s chartered High Courts arsenic a guardian of law committedness and arsenic a awesome of the corporate pursuit for justice.
“Since its inception successful 1862, this High Court has nurtured a resolute lineage of jurists. The renovated practice gathering which we inaugurated contiguous strengthens that lineage. This gathering holds a peculiar affectional resonance. Since 1899, the corridors of this gathering had moulded generations of eminent lawyers, judges and academicians who shaped the Indian judiciary and our Republic’s jurisprudence,” helium said.
Stating the judicial ngo was to service each national with fairness and dignity too providing accessibility, Justice Kant said, “infrastructural indulgence is an imperative.” Justice M.M. Sundresh of the Supreme Court participated successful the celebrations virtually from Barcelona and said: “From being a tributary of the judiciary, this practice gathering has contiguous go the judiciary itself.”
Justice R. Mahadevan of the Supreme Court reminisced the days erstwhile jurists specified arsenic erstwhile Supreme Court justice C. Nagappan served arsenic a module astatine the Madras Law College. He said, the contiguous translation of the gathering was not simply architectural and that it unites the past with the present. “The ideals that erstwhile inspired students volition present animate the judges, lawyers and litigants,” helium said.
Union Minister of State for Law and Justice (independent charge) Arjun Ram Meghwal said, the inauguration of the renovated practice gathering marks a important milestone successful improving judicial infrastructure successful the country. He said, the Centre was steadfast successful its purpose to amended the infrastructural facilities and guarantee that each judge, lawyer and litigant had entree to an businesslike judicial system.
Madras High Court Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava said, it’s a large infinitesimal erstwhile a temple of learning and acquisition was being transformed into a temple of justice. Since astir of the sitting judges and practising lawyers successful the High Court had studied instrumentality successful the practice building, helium said, henceforth, they would beryllium discharging their duties excessively arsenic judges and lawyers from the aforesaid edifice.
Tamil Nadu Law Minister S. Regupathy said, the State authorities was committed to providing champion imaginable infrastructural facilities for the judiciary. Justice R. Suresh Kumar, the astir elder justice of the Madras High Court, said, the State authorities had handed implicit the practice gathering to the High Court successful 2022 and besides sanctioned ₹23.13 crore for the renovation enactment which commenced connected September 4, 2022 and took 3 years to complete.
Justice M.S. Ramesh, Advocate General P.S. Raman and Additional Solicitor General AR.L. Sundaresan besides spoke. Sitting arsenic good arsenic erstwhile judges of the Madras High Court, Bar Council of India vice-chairman S. Prabakaran, Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry president P.S. Amalraj, office-bearers of assorted barroom associations, lawyers, tribunal unit and others participated.
