Settle issues regarding shifting of DRT: HC to Centre & Bar

The Delhi High Court today asked the Centre and Bar Association of the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) to make an attempt to settle the issues with respect to the shifting of the quasi-judicial body to a building at Parliament Street here.
"Party shall make and endeavour to find the solution to the problem," Justice Vibhu Bakhru said adding that DRT along with the members from the concerned authorities can visit the site and resolve the issue with "something more or less".
The court said the President and the Secretary of the DRT, along with some responsible person, preferably a senior lawyer, shall visit the place tomorrow and inform it about their decision on the next date of hearing, November 3.

It also said that the concerned Registrar of the DRT will also accompany them during their visit to the new premises tomorrow after 5 pm.
The court had on October 17 in its interim order put on hold till today the Centre's decision to shift three benches of DRT from their current location in Jhandewalan here to a building in Parliament Street, saying, "let the Tribunals function from their present place" till further order of the court.
The court was hearing a petition moved by the DRT Bar Association which claimed the new premises did not have proper parking facilities, places for lawyers and litigants to sit or other amenities.

They had also said that there will be a function in the next few days and if DRT is moved to the new location it will create a chaos as there would be no place to park the vehicles and power and other facilities are also not fully functional.
At present, the DRT is being operated from the basement of a building at the RSS Bharat Prakashan-owned Keshav Kunj in Jhandewalan for several years.