Supreme Court Seeks Allahabad HC Response On Transferring Pending Arbitration/Commercial Matters To Commercial Courts In UP
Live LawJustices M. R. Shah and B. V. Nagarathna was hearing the matter where the Court had in May The bench ofwas hearing the matter where the Court had in May issued certain directions to tackle the problem of delay in deciding the matters related to commercial disputes in the state of UP. Further, on Tuesday, Ms. Garima Prasad, Senior Advocate/AAG appearing on behalf of the state of UP placed on record Notification of 21.07.2022 issued by the government of UP, by which the government has constituted four additional commercial courts in UP at Meerut, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Agra and Lucknow. The bench had on Tuesday noted that however, from the Notification it appears that those four additional commercial courts would have jurisdiction over different Districts and that the aforesaid is likely to create more problems and delay in disposal of the commercial cases- For example, if the additional commercial court at Meerut would have jurisdiction over six different Districts, in that case the litigants in other Districts may have to go to Meerut even those districts may not have a large pendency. Mr. Nikhil Goel learned counsel appearing on behalf of the High Court has submitted that the High court might not have made the proposal to have four additional commercial courts having jurisdiction over different Districts. "Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the High Court and even the Registrar General, who is present in the Court, is not in a position to point out as to how many commercial cases are pending in the Commercial Courts at Meerut, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Agra and Lucknow and the respective Districts over which the aforesaid Commercial Courts, namely, Meerut, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Agra and Lucknow have jurisdiction", recorded the bench on Wednesday.