With lakhs of cases pending at Calcutta High Court, the state government has decided to appoint eight new judges to the court, said Rabilal Maitra, minister for law and judicial services at the state assembly here today.
With the latest addition, the number of judges at the High Court will rise to 58.
The minister also said the government was going to appoint 73 new judges to the district and sub-divisional courts.
He added that the state government had asked the Centre to set up a National Judicial Commission on the lines of the National Vigilance Commission.
In his reply to the debate on the budget of the fisheries department, the minister in-charge Kiranmoy Nanda told the house that this season there would be less hilsa in the market, as shoals of hilsa that comes to Hooghly river or in the Bay of Bengal near Digha has this time gone to Myanmar. "It's a natural phenomenon. We can't do anything in this regard," the minister said.
He said importing fish from Bangladesh would be difficult as the country was charging Rs 1,000 per piece of hilsa.
Source: Express News Service 23/July/2008
