Foundation stone laid for new Jaffna Court complex

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 14 July 2004, 10:21 GMT]
Sri Lanka's Chief Justice Mr.Sarath N.Silva laid the foundation stone for a modern court complex in Jaffna Wednesday. The complex is to be constructed at a cost of 160 million rupees with financial assistance from the International Development Agency (IDA) of the World Bank under the Legal and Judicial Reforms Project, sources said.

The construction work would be completed in October 2005.

Meanwhile, the modern court complex constructed at a cost about one hundred million rupees in Trincomalee for which the Chief Justice had laid the foundation stone on 15th January last year is almost completed and the opening ceremony is expected to take place in August or September this year, Justice Ministry sources said.