# accommodation intended for other officials

- **Citation:** C.L. No. 522/46-78
- **Court:** Allahabad High Court
- **Decided:** 1937-04-07
- **Case number:** C.L. No. 522/46-78
- **Source:** https://unisonlegal.in/judgment/allahabad-high-court/accommodation-intended-for-other-officials-162410
- **Pages:** 2

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C.L. No. 522/46-78 dated 30th July, 1913
Some District Judges have from time to time in the past dealt with government
property under their control in such a way as to allow strangers to acquire, or to be in a
position to set up claims of adverse possession against the Government. In most cases
this has been done without information being given to the High Court or to any
responsible officer of Government. For instance, additions to and changes in new
buildings have been made by a District Judge acting with the Public Works Department
which have involved Government in an expenditure of Rs. 42,563, a sum far beyond the
sanctioned estimates. In another district a large mosque with a grove attached to it and
other appurtenances have been built upon such land and rent paid by government for the
land so occupied. In other districts smaller mosques have grown up with the consent or at
any rate without opposition from the District Judge. In some cases portions of court
buildings have been allotted to pleaders or government officials thereby curtailing the
accommodation intended for other officials.
In future the responsibility for seeing that changes are not made without the
sanction of the High Court previously obtained will be strictly enforced.
Requisitions from other departments - Registration, Police, etc. to occupy parts of
the court buildings or to add to existing buildings should, before assent is given to them,
be sent to the Court for consideration. It is not conducive to the security of a record room
to find that a portion of it has been assigned to the Registration Department and that free
access in consequence has been given to Registration officials to come and go at will
inside the District Court's record room.
C.L. No. 40/Budget-1 dated 12th July, 1982
The District Judges should take up the matter effectively with the District
Magistrate and Municipal Board authorities for, stopping unauthorised constructions of
gumtis and hut shops, etc., outside the court premises and the removal of unauthorised
constructions as also for keeping the vicinity of the civil courts outside its compound in
healthy and hygienic conditions.
C.L. No. 50/IXg-36 dated 25th April, 1961 referred in
C.L. No. 4 dated 1st April, 1903
C.L. No. 6 dated 30th June. 1904 and
C.L. No. 3159 dated 5th October, 1909
The Nazir of each outlying court and the Central Nazir of each judgeship will,
through the District Judge, report to the Court that he has inspected the grounds attached
to the civil court building and will certify that no permanent structures have been erected
within the said ground during the last financial year (April to March) for the erection of
which the sanction of the Court has not been obtained and that all structures of temporary
nature have been removed. The report should reach the Court not later than first week of
May each year.
243
C.L. No. 2990/67 dated 12th July, 1913
Office copies of these annual reports are to be kept for twelve years computed from
the January 1, of the year succeeding that to which they relate.
C.L. No. 103 dated 18th November, 1957
No club should be opened in the court premises without the specific sanction of the
High Court.
G.L. No. 5/SC-1, (1) dated 20th January, 1937, read with
G.L. No. 23/SC-2 dated 7th April, 1937
Each District Judge is the authority to allow the erection of a post for a telegraph or
a telephone on civil court land whether the line is for the benefit of some one else or
some other government building or for a telegraph office. In exercising this authority the
District Judge will satisfy himself that the line cannot be laid elsewhere and that the posts
do not cause any unsightly obstruction to the civil court buildings. The conditions laid
down in G.L. No. 23/SC-2, dated April 7, 1937 must be carefully borne in mind.
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BUILDINGS
(i)
Construction of additional court room
C.L. No. 98/s(b) dated 20th July, 1971
Whenever any proposal to the Court is made for construction of additional court
rooms at a particular station, full information on the following points should be sent:
(1)
Number of permanent courts.
(2)
Whether accommodation for such courts and their offices etc. is available
in the existing building.
(3)
Number of temporary courts, duration of such temporary courts and the
period for which they are likely to continue (along with full facts and
figures in justification).
(4)
Whether accommodation and furniture are available. If not, the reason
thereof.
(5)
In case additional court rooms are to be constructed, the demand for
additional furniture should also be sent along with the proposal for
construction of court rooms.
(6)
Whether residential accommodation is available for the officers of
permanent courts, temporary courts and for the officers likely to be posted
on the creation of new courts.
(ii)
Construction of three storied buildings
C.L. No. 103/s(b) (Main) dated 8th June, 1974 and
C.L. No. 111/s(b) (Main) dated 26th July, 1974

Proposals for construction of court rooms, office rooms, residences etc., should be
sent to the Court keeping in view the instructions contained in Government letter no.