The Bar Association, Ambala Cantonment has been demanding that the courts be shifted back since then, while lawyers of the association have been sitting in the open at the sessions court complex.

A memorandum submitted to the visiting high court judge urged him to use his good offices to get the courts shifted back to Ambala Cantonment, saying that lawyers as well as the judicial officers were not being given even the minimum facilities. It was added that conditions were not congenial for the Bar association members to function properly. The memorandum said that the sessions court complex was in a deplorable state and that conditions there were insanitary.

The memorandum pointed out that during the rainy season, the court compound became a virtual lake since there was no system for drainage of accumulated rain water. People coming here had to wade through knee-deep water to reach the court rooms. It was pointed out that court work suffered badly during rainy days and that records got damaged every year due to leaking roofs, causing much trouble for litigants.

It was further pointed out that one of the court rooms was in a deplorable state. It was added there were cracks in the walls and it was unsafe and needed to be repaired immediately. The memorandum said that people of Ambala Cantonment were forced to go to Ambala City to get justice. It was urged that the facility they had enjoyed for 70 years should be restored to them by shifting the courts back to the cantonment.

The memorandum mentioned that the demand for shifting the courts had been raised earlier too by deputations led by former legislators as well as the present MLA, Anil Vij, who had met the state chief ministers and Chief Justice Punjab and Haryana High Court S. P. Kurdukar and the visiting high court judges.

Anil Vij had raised the issue in the Vidhan Sabha and Chief Minister Bansi Lal, had assured on the floor of the House that a suitable place for judicial courts, Ambala Cantonment, would be provided soon. Earlier, Bhajan Lal, while he was chief minister had ordered the handing over of a building, (where offices of divisional employment were functioning), for housing the courts. But unfortunately, the courts have not been shifted till date, it was added.