Half a century since lawyers in western Uttar Pradesh have been demanding a High Court bench in the region and a march in this regard will be heldin Delhi on November 26 2014

In 1955, Dr. Sampurnanand, the second chief minister of UP, had for the first time recommended the formation of a High Court bench in western part of the state. Thereafter in 1981, the state government recommended to the Centre to set up a bench. The Central government set up the Jaswant Singh Commission in 1981, after a series of protests from lawyers of the region, to look into the matter....