City Sessions Court, Calcutta

ABOUT DISTRICT COURT

The name of the city of Calcutta is associated with the evolution of Justice delivery system in the country. Transformation of the British Mercantile Company (East India Company) into spectra of the British Raj. The Sadar Dewani Adalat and Sadat Nijamat Adalat were located in Ford Street when the Chief Justice of this Court's used to live in a house in the center of Museum Compound. Subsequently, the Sadar Courts were shifted to a Fine Pile with Colonnaded for Frontage and of great length, next to the Presidency General Hospital. This Presidency General Hospital was build as a Hospital for the sick of the Regiment in the Fort, and was most admirably planned for the purpose; but, no sooner than it was completed, Lord William Bentinck appropriated it for the Sadar Court.
The Sadar Courts were replaced by Mayor's Courts. The first Mayor's Court was established in the Presidency Town of Calcutta in 1728 and it started functioning at the Ambassador House belonging to the East India Company and stood at the corner of Lalbazar and Mission Row. The site of which presently occupied by Martin Burn and Company's Building. Then the Mayor's Court moved to the premises of[...]