Daijiworld News Network – Udupi (VM)

Udupi, Mar 15: The newly constructed Udupi Courts’ Complex will be inaugurated on Saturday March 18.
Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph will inaugurate the complex while the chief minister H D Kumaraswamy will preside over the programme.

Briefing the reporters District and Sessions Judge K N Phaneendra said that High Court Judges Ram Mohan Reddy, P Vishwanath Shetty, R Gururajan and Abdul Nazeer, Union Minister Oscar Femandes, Minister for Law Basavaraj S Horatti, Minister for Medical Education Dr V S Acharya and Member of Parliament Manorama Madhwaraj will be the chief guests.

The court complex has been built at a cost of Rs 2.25 crore and would house the District and Sessions Court, two Chief Judicial (Senior Division) Courts and three Chief Judicial Junior Division) Courts. The court proceedings in the new complex will begin immediately after the inaugural programme, Phaneendra added.

The annual day celebrations of the Udupi Bar Association will be held on the same day, from 3 pm. Secretary of the State Legal Aid Committee A V Chandrashekar will inaugurate the programmes. District and Session Judge K N Phaneendra will preside. Members of the State Bar Council Seetharam Shetty, Narayan Poojary and Padma Prasad Hegde will be the chief guests, said the President of the Association G Ashok Kumar Hegde.