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MP for Dakshina Kannada Capt. Brijesh Chowta connected Wednesday wrote to Union Minister of Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal requesting his enactment and involution for the constitution of a Circuit Bench and subsequently a imperishable Bench of the High Court of Karnataka successful Mangaluru.
“This long-standing aspiration of the determination Bar, civilian society, and the nationalist has precocious achieved immense organization statement crossed the executive, legislative, and judicial echelons of the State,” helium said.
Capt. Chowta said that the ineligible and geographical justification for decentralising judicial entree to Mangaluru remains undeniable. The coastal and Malnad districts, comprising Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru, and Uttara Kannada, collectively make a monolithic caseload for the Principal Bench successful Bengaluru. Around 30% cases successful the High Court are from these districts. Litigants from these regions are forced to question astir 370 km to Bengaluru. As a captious motor of growth, Mangaluru has the second-highest GDP per capita successful Karnataka and serves arsenic a large commercialized centre. Its presumption arsenic a strategical larboard hub further reinforces its readiness to big a judicial Bench that aligns with the region’s monolithic economical and administrative expansion.
He further worte: “This inaugural has been led and guided by erstwhile Justice of Supreme Court and Governor of Andhra Pradesh Syed Abdul Nazeer. In a large boost to this demand, Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah has formally written to the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court connected May 13, 2026, conveying the State government’s implicit readiness to facilitate the infrastructure with contiguous effect. Furthermore, the MLAs and MLCs from the portion are wholeheartedly successful support, we judge that making decentralised judicial transportation is simply a pragmatic necessity successful the region.”
Capt. Chowta wrote that successful caller and highly promising developments, Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, Justice Vibhu Bakhru, has positively responded to the representations made by the High Court Bench Horata Samiti and the Mangaluru Bar Association.
The Chief Justice has scheduled a idiosyncratic sojourn to Mangaluru to inspect the disposable infrastructure facilities earlier rendering a last determination connected mounting up the Circuit Bench.
The constitution of this Bench volition realise the law committedness of affordable, localised, and timely justness portion importantly lowering the pendency load connected the Principal Bench successful Bengaluru, helium said.
“...I earnestly petition the Ministry of Law and Justice to lend its afloat administrative and argumentation enactment to accelerate the support of a Circuit Bench and its consequent modulation into a Permanent High Court Bench successful Mangaluru,” Capt. Chowta wrote.
