Rename High Courts after their jurisdictional States
The PIL lawyer and my friend Asok Pande (this is how he writes his name) from Lucknow has been campaigning for the change of name Allahabad High Court and redetermination of the territorial jurisdiction of Allahabad and Lucknow Bench of the High Court. His demands are absolutely logical, and the Parliament must take up this issue in all seriousness, not only with regard to the Allahabad High court but also about other High Courts to change their names so as to bring about consistency and uniformity. There are three High Courts- Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, which are the chartered High Courts. In all only six High Courts, which are named after the cities and not after the states over which they have territorial jurisdictions. Allahabad, Patna, and Guwahati are the other three among the six. Other 19High Courts are named after the states they exercise their territorial jurisdiction. Goa is, of course, an exception, which has a bench in Panjim but that comes under the Bombay High Cou