At least 171 trial court judges have been discharging their duties without specific courtrooms. The judges have been conducting their judicial functioning in their colleagues’ courtrooms. Owing to the dearth of courtrooms, the judges cannot work full-time on judicial activities, sources said. Though the Chief Justice has requested the district magistrates (administration) to allocate some rooms to judicial magistrates, most of the district magistrates (admin) are yet to provide these to the judicial magistrates. As a result, the judges cannot work full-time and, as a result, pending cases keep on piling up, sources said. At a recent felicitation programme, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha urged the district magistrates to provide those…

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