LUCKNOW, Oct. 20 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has sought separate counter- affidavits (replies) detailing the progress from the state government and high court administration before November 18 in the matter of creation of 9,149 courts in Uttar Pradesh.

This order was passed by a division bench comprising Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Rajeev Bharati on October 17 on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition registered as "suo motu" in the matter that seeks to upgrade the district judicial system on judge-population ratio basis.

As per an earlier order of the court, the legal remembrancer-cum-principal secretary (law), UP, filed his affidavit. "We have perused the affidavit of the Legal Remembrancer-cum- Principal S...