Guwahati, Jan. 12 -- Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Sunday said that the law must never appear remote, forbidding or out of reach while laying emphasis on integrated court complexes with adequate space for young lawyers. The CJI made the remarks in Guwahati while laying the foundation stone of an integrated judicial complex where the Gauhati high court will be relocated. Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, several judges of the apex court, chief justices of the high courts of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura, and Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal were present. "The foundation stone laying ceremony represents far more than commencement of a project . It is the reaffirmation of the constitutional guarantee that the law must never appear remote, forbidding or out of reach," CJI Kant said. Besides Assam, the Gauhati HC caters to Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram as well. The new integrated high court complex, which will have 31 court rooms, will be built at a cost of Rs.479 crore in the first phase. A judicial township that will include a district court complex with 65 court rooms will be constructed near the high court at a later stage, at a cost of another Rs.1,227 crore. Once it's completed, the high court will be relocated from its present location at Uzanbazar in the heart of Guwahati to Rangmahal in North Guwahati. "Integration (of a judicial complex) is not just an architectural concept, it is how the system works as a whole...As the head of the Indian judiciary, my priority is to the development of future infrastructure that empowers those (lawyers) who are yet to find their footing rather than catering to those who have already reaped the full harvest of this profession," the CJI said. More than 1,300 lawyers associated with the Gauhati High Court Bar Association (GHCBA) have been opposing the relocation and even staged a hunger strike against setting up of the new complex around 12-15 km away from the present site. Members of the association said they opposed the proposal since it was announced a year-and-a-half ago, arguing that the relocation will severely affect access to justice for thousands of litigants across the region. "I was surprised when it was brought to my notice that some members of the bar association are opposed to the new complex. I believe either they are ill infirmed or unfortunately they are not realising the need and the necessity for the young members of the bar and those who are in queue to join the profession," CJI Kant said....