NEW DELHI: With a spurt in incidents of violence against undertrials on court premises while being produced before judges, six bar associations of Delhi will adopt the “pass” system for entry.
The pass system is prevalent in the High Court and Supreme Court, and has all details of visitors entering the complexes.
This will end chaos on court premises, which is swarming with people with lack of crowd monitoring. Apart from a normal security check at the entry of the court premises and of the main court building, no other data is maintained to check who enters the court.
In Supreme Court and Delhi High Court, no visitor can enter until he/she obtains a valid pass, which contains details such as the visitor’s photo, name, age, address, court number, case number and the advocate the visitor is meeting.
The pass system, which in use in the apex court, was adopted by the High Court more stringently after a blast outside its premises in 2010.
“This is a long pending demand from our side as violence in the court premises is rampant. We have full support from advocates and are working put the whole system in place,” said Advocate Neeraj, secretary, Patiala House Bar Association.
Last month, a hired shooter killed undertrial Rajesh Durmut on Rohini court premises. Durmut was wanted in over 16 cases of robbery, murder and dacoity.
In 2016, a Delhi Police constable lost his life when gunmen opened fire inside Karkardooma Court at Irfan alias Chenu, who has over 100 cases against him.