LUCKNOW, Oct. 23 -- 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. "As per decision taken in the High Level Committee headed by the Chief Secretary, creation of 9149 courts in the districts was to be done in phased manner and according to which, in the first phase 402 posts of Civil Judge (Senior Division) and 601 posts of Civil Judge (Junior Division) were to be created..." the court added. "We would like to know the progress both from the High Court, the Legal Remembrancer-cum- Principal Secretary (Law), Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow as also the Additional Chief Secretary (Finance), who shall file their separate affidavits..." the court ordered and directed to list this case as the first case of the day on November 18....