Why AP has denied - not known so far

                                  Why nothing will be granted without agitations ?







Fight for the bench

* October 28, 1954: A six-member fact finding committee headed by Sheshadri appointed by Mysore State government to study the demand for establishment of a high court in North Karnataka submits its report recommending establishment of bench at a central place.

* November 5, 1975: Karnataka Law minister D K Naiker writes to Union Law minister demanding the establishment of the high court bench in Dharwad.

* October 27,1979: Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court D M Chandrashekhar accords his consent for establishment of HC bench in Dharwad.

* 1981: The Union government appoints Justice Jaswant Singh Commission to look into the feasibility of the demand for establishment of high court bench outside the principal seat in the wake of demand from other states for the setting up of HC benches.

* 1981: The Jaswant Singh committee visits Dharwad and other places and collects opinions.

* 1983: Jaswant Singh Committees submits its report recommending establishment of HC bench in Dharwad.

* March 30, 1992: Karnataka Assembly passes a resolution regarding establishment of HC bench in North Karnataka.

 Dharwad and Gulbarga benches

The Karnataka High Court is currently functional in Bangalore, Dharwad and Gulbarga.

There was a long-standing demand for an additional bench: the location of Bangalore in south-east corner of the state caused hardship for people visiting the High Court from the distant northern regions of the state.
This issue led to agitation, including boycott of court proceedings by lawyers in the northern region. The demand was finally met in the year 2006 when it was decided that circuit benches of the High Court would be set up in Dharwad and Gulbarga.

The new branches were inaugurated on 4 and 5 July 2008, respectively.

There was later demand to make both Dharwad and Gulbarga benches permanent. Consequently, Dharwad circuit bench became a permanent bench from 25 August 2013 and Gulbarga circuit bench became a permanent bench from 31 August 2013.

Madurai - Bench
Established in 2004, the court is a boon to the people in thirteen southern districts of Tamil Nadu. The bench has Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Madurai, Dindigul, Ramanathapuram, Virudhunagar, Theni, Sivaganga, Pudukottai, Thanjavur, Tiruchirappalli and Karur districts under its jurisdiction.

The 107-acre campus of the Court is one of the largest court campuses in the country, Second Largest in the world after the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, London and the four-storey administrative building attracts hundreds of litigants every day. The court complex has 12 court halls, furnished on the model of the court halls in the Supreme Court, the Delhi and the Chennai High Courts.

The court, since its inauguration on 24 July 2004, has perked up the legal process in the southern districts and has cultivated a large number of social activists, who vouch for the interest of the public though their public interest litigations.