Second campus of Pune court to be set up at Moshi

“Currently the court in Pimpri houses only magistrate and civil courts. The court campus in Moshi will also have additional district and sessions judges to hear cases from Pimpri,Chinchwad,Junnar,Khed,Ambegaon and nearby area,” said Shivraj Kadam,vice-president of Pune Bar Association (PBA). The move,he said,will reduce the burden on the Pune court as the cases will be more streamlined.

Meanwhile,all courts and judicial tribunals in Pune are set to come under a single judicial cluster at Shivajinagar.

The Bombay High Court building committee and government officials recently took the decision to hand over 8 acres of Shivajinagar godown belonging to the revenue department to the Pune district and sessions court in exchange for 7 acres it had earmarked for court premises at Warje near Ganesh matha.

The decision was taken on Tuesday in a meeting chaired by the Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan,Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar,chief justice of Bombay High Court Mohit Shah,registrar general of HC S B Shukre along with officials from the revenue and public works departments.

“The land will be developed as a judicial cluster with Pune district and sessions court,Pune district family court,consumer court,cooperatives court,labour,industrial court and revenue court coming to Shivajinagar. While the construction of family court’s new building is on,the rest of the land will be developed after the process of handing is done by the year-end,” said advocate Kadam.

A ‘Y’ shaped-subway being planned will connect the three campuses — the district and sessions court,the family court new building and the added plot of eight acres so that litigants and lawyers can commute easily.

A mechanised parking is also planned in the eight acres that will be handed over to the Pune court.

Since the judicial campus will be concentrated under one roof,it will have a dedicated police chowky and intense security with manned entry and an exit point,independent scanning room for visitors along with metal detectors,Kadam said,in a press meet held on Wednesday.