LUCKNOW, Feb. 25 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has directed the legal remembrancer (LR), UP, (a senior government law officer, often the head of the state's legal affairs) to appear before it on March 9 in the matter of creation of the 9,149 district courts in Uttar Pradesh.

The order was passed by a division bench comprising justice Rajan Roy and justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary on February 23 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.

Additional chief secretary (finance) Deepak Kumar had joined the proceedings on January 8 and informed the court that the budget for creation of the posts as de...