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Charity begins at home! Filthy Washrooms, garbage filled compound in Jammu Courts cause of concern ASEEM SAWHNEY 12/18/2013 12:42:39 AM “Charity begins at home" is a commonly used idiom which means that -One should take care of family and people close to self before one helps others. Perhaps we as lawyers , championing the cause of Rights of people in the Courts must make our own complex an exemplary model for other institutions. Every day we see and read news where directions in various PILs make headlines that the Municipal Commissioner and other officers have been directed to maintain civic cleanliness in the city and other officers directed to ensure hygienic, garbage free, polythene free city. But what pains the most is that Cleanliness is inaccessible and astray in the High Court complex in Jammu and lower Courts complex here. The Courts are temple of justice where the judicial institution functions and in Indian tradition and culture, such like places of worship are necessarily to be kept neat and clean, but a peep into the washrooms of the High Court at Jammu would give the pinch of state of affairs vis a vis our hygiene and cleanliness here which is a cause of concern. Lawyers and litigants are facing this problem every day, but once they use the wash rooms, its over. Except for cribbing no one takes the issue seriously to take it to a log...