Bench at WALMI is I-Day gift for Dharwad

Bench at WALMI is I-Day gift for Dharwad
The Times of India

Bangalore/Dharwad: The foundation stone for the circuit Bench of the High Court at Dharwad will be laid on August 14, law and parliamentary affairs minister H.K. Patil said on Wednesday.

However, the foundation for another circuit Bench at Gulbarga is likely to be laid on August 20. Addressing reporters, Patil said the Bench at Dharwad will be established in the premises of Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI), off the Bangalore-Pune highway. Chief justice N.K. Sodhi will lay the foundation stone and the function will be attended by governor T.N. Chaturvedi and chief minister N. Dharam Singh.

In Gulbarga, the Bench will be established at Aiwan-e-Shahi area. Civil work on these projects is likely to commence in the first week of November.

Dharwad Bar Association has decided to call off the relay hunger strike it had launched from Tuesday. Association president B.D. Hiremath appealed to lawyers not to create unnecessary hurdles at this stage as the Bench was coming up after decades of struggle.