HC raps govt for not providing infrastructure to courts

Karnataka High Court today rapped the state government for not providing basic infrastructure to courts and asked if it had become bankrupt.

The Court also observed that if the government failed to provide the facilities, "we will ensure that various benefits, including air travel are not given to MLAs, MPs and ministers". Seeking to know whether the government really intended to provide the facilities, the bench directed it to furnish details of steps taken in this regard by March 9. "Is the government lacking funds? Has it become bankrupt", a division bench, comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and A S Bopanna, observed. The court''s direction came on a PIL filed by advocate A V Amarnatha challenging conversion of a playground at a locality here into a judges colony and sought to know why the government had failed to provide necessary infrastructure facilities.