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The Gauhati High Court Bar Association connected Sunday (January 11, 2026) began a four-hour onslaught to boycott the instauration chromatic laying of the caller High Court complex, to beryllium done by the Chief Justice of India.
A caller analyzable of the Gauhati High Court has been projected arsenic portion of a judicial township astatine Rangmahal successful North Guwahati, and CJI Justice Surya Kant, is scheduled to laic the instauration chromatic of it aboriginal successful the day.
The members of the Gauhati High Court Bar Association (GHCBA) took portion successful a four-hour hunger onslaught connected Thursday (January 8) and Friday (January 9) successful beforehand of the aged gathering of the Gauhati High Court.
"We are wholly against shifting the High Court from the contiguous location, which is the bosom of the city. We person begun our hunger onslaught from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.. None of our members volition be the function," GHCBA vice president Santanu Borthakur told PTI.
The GHCBA has been opposing the determination to displacement the tribunal analyzable from the beginning, but the authorities has unilaterally decided and is present going up to conception a caller judicial infrastructure, helium alleged.
"As it appears, the instauration chromatic volition beryllium laid today. After this, we are reasoning of challenging this successful court. Our enforcement committee volition conscionable wrong the adjacent fewer days and determine the aboriginal people of action," Mr. Borthakur said.
The GHCBA has been vehemently opposing the relocation of the High Court analyzable to the bluish slope of the Brahmaputra from the existing spot astatine the bosom of Guwahati city.
Assam Advocate General Devajit Saikia connected Saturday (January 10) criticised the GHCBA, claiming that determination was a "nexus with governmental parties" down the protest.
The authorities is readying to conception the caller judicial township astatine Rangmahal, dispersed crossed 148 bighas (nearly 49 acres) of land.
In November past year, the State furniture had approved ₹479 crore successful the archetypal signifier to conception a judicial township successful North Guwahati.
Earlier, GHCBA had demanded an contiguous halt to the task successful the involvement of each stakeholders and the nationalist astatine large.
The Gauhati High Court is presently located successful the Uzan Bazar country of cardinal Guwahati connected the confederate slope of Brahmaputra. It has a humanities building, portion a state-of-the-art multi-crore modern multi-storey operation was constructed and inaugurated a fewer years ago.
Both the buildings are located face-to-face connected 2 sides of Mahatma Gandhi Road and are connected done an underground tunnel, having escalator facilities.
The Assam authorities is seeking to make the riverfront of the Brahmaputra, for which it requires the High Court land. A caller normal centre is besides being built adjacent to the aged precocious tribunal analyzable connected the riverbank.
