{"id":14,"date":"2008-02-18T19:03:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T19:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-02-18T19:03:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T19:03:46","slug":"court-in-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/blog\/court-in-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Court in a car!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/images\/cartoon6.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This could have come straight off a Ripleys&rsquo; believe it or  not entry. Imagine &#8211; a court &nbsp;&nbsp;room in a  car! <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/StoryPage\/StoryPage.aspx?id=bb222f90-778d-4df6-8ebb-dfdeaa277786\">HT<\/a> reported that The Employees  Provident Fund Appellate Tribunal, India&rsquo;s top court dealing with PF  disputes from across the country, has been functioning from an ambassador car  for more than three months now. It has apparently been like this ever since a  fire on October 6 destroyed its office in the ninth floor of Mayur Bhawan in Delhi. The car is the official vehicle  of R.L. Koli, the Tribunal head or the presiding officer, as he is known.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  HT provided graphic details as to how  the court in the car functions: Apparently, the Tribunal&#8217;s head and his  stenographer sit on the rear seat. The lawyer positions himself on the front  seat, near the driver&rsquo;s, and turns back to make submissions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  This sorry state of affairs did  not go unnoticed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/pti_news.asp?id=543824\">Outlook<\/a> reported that the Chief Justice of India K G  Balakrishnan lashed out at the government apathy. &quot;There is failure of the  states to create better judicial infrastructure. It is pity that the Executive  is neglecting judiciary while carrying out infrastructure development in the  states,&quot; it quoted him as saying. Unless the Executive comes forward with  funds to provide adequate infrastructure to the judiciary, the latter will not  be able to contribute better to the society, he said, adding that the states  have to find a way out to bring judiciary out of the infrastructure  constraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could have come straight off a Ripleys&rsquo; believe it or not entry. Imagine &#8211; a court &nbsp;&nbsp;room in a car! HT reported that The Employees Provident Fund Appellate Tribunal, India&rsquo;s top court dealing with PF disputes from across the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/blog\/court-in-a-car\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Court in a car!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}