Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant speaking at the inauguration of the new ‘Tower of Justice’ in Gurugram on Sunday (July 12, 2026).
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Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant on Sunday (July 12, 2026) said judicial infrastructure was no longer a luxury but a “very big necessity”, and called for mandatory facilities for women advocates, including separate bar rooms and adjoining childcare facilities, in all new court complexes.Speaking at the inauguration of the new Tower of Justice, a seven-acre judicial complex for the Gurugram District and Sessions Court near Rajiv Chowk, the Chief Justice said providing an atmosphere that instils confidence in socially and financially backward litigants was the duty of all three organs of the Constitution.“Just as a patient reaching a hospital is given first-aid, a consumer of justice coming to court must be given first-aid in the form of basic amenities — seating, drinking water and washrooms,” Chief Justice Kant said. He noted that Gurugram’s transformation from an agricultural town to an industrial hub had led to a sharp rise in legal disputes of all kinds.Flagging the lack of facilities for women lawyers, the CJI cited a recent Supreme Court Bar Association survey, which found that many judicial complexes across States lacked basic amenities for women members of the bar. “Women advocates are not being provided the facilities that should be given to them in many States. It is our all-out effort that wherever new judicial infrastructure is constructed, it should be mandatory to provide these facilities. It would not be right to call it a modern court complex without them,” he said.
