Renovations: Work on Civil District and Session Courts East to begin from next week

Courts to be functional in the old ICT admin building after a month.

ISLAMABAD:

Renovation work on the Civil District and Session Courts East will begin next week and is expected to complete within a month, an official of the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration said on Saturday.

The official said that offices of the commissioner, senior superintendent of police (SSP) and the excise and taxation department which were previously set up in the building have been shifted to the new ICT complex in G-11.

He added that the timeline of the renovation work, which is expected to cost around Rs8.7 million, was decided in an earlier meeting with Chief Commissioner Islamabad Tariq Mahmood Pirzada. Another 51 uplift projects in the rural and urban areas of the city have also been approved.

Civil and Session Courts East will have 14 judges and ancillary staff including readers and record keepers at its disposal and will deal with cases pertaining to 12 union councils, which include Rawat, Sihala, Koral, Tarlai, Bhara Kahu, Kirpa, Chirah, Sohan, Kurri, Tumair and Phulgran.

Islamabad District Court President Syed Javed Akbar said the ICT administration’s decision to renovate the old ICT office and use it as a branch of the civil and sessions courts will ease space constrains that the judges, lawyers and even the litigants were facing. He also hailed the ICT administration’s decision to divide the Civil Districts and Sessions Courts into two divisions, the East and the West.

Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Amir Ali Ahmed confirmed the development and said that as per the timeline, the Civil District and Session Courts East will be functional after a month’s time.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 26^th, 2012.