'Bifurcation of HC would be against spirit of Constitution'

Reason for re-igniting this issue : Date of election of  Of High Court Bar Association has been declared.

 MP has three benches - Gwalior, Jabalpur and Indore.

Allahabad has two benches - Lucknow and Allahabad 

Chennai and two benches - Chennai and Madurai

Rajasthan has two benchs - Jodhpur and Jaipur (Jaipur abolished in 1958 but restarted in 1977)

Two states Maharashtra and Goa have only one High Court.

So what is the problem in having more benches of the same High Court at more than one place in the same State. High Courts are menat for the public or the public is meant for the High Court.

In fact there is no reason why Supreme Court should not have have a bench in the South. Imagine a person in Kanyakumari going all the way to Dehi for his case.

Punjab and Haryana have one High Court.

It it was the spirit, why benches of the High Courts were set up at other places in the same State. Let us not live in a cucoon.