District Court, Fazilka

ABOUT DISTRICT COURT

The origin of Fazilka dates back to 1844 CE. After the Amritsar Treaty of 1809, the East India Company sought permission from Maharaja Ranjit Singh to install a boat pier on Sutlej River at Ferozepur to reach Karachi Port. The request was declined and the Company commissioned an officer Mr. Patrick Vans Alexander Agnew to discover a site for the boat pier, downstream of Ferozepur. He discovered the horseshoe shaped freshwater Lake ‘Badha’ and established a camp on its Southern Periphery. The Company sanctioned a bungalow on the bank of Badha Lake to install boating pier at Village Jhangar. The bungalow was constructed in 1844 which came to be known as “Bangla”.

Another officer Mr. J. H. Oliver became in-charge of the bungalow in 1846. He persuaded an elder of ‘Watto Tribe’ namely Mian Mohd. Fazil Wattoo Lambardar to gift the land for the development of a township around the bungalow. He agreed and gifted the land on which the town prospered and emerged as a trading centre for raw wool. Mr. Oliver named the new market town after Watto Lambardar as “Fazilka”.

The British Raj connected Fazilka with a new rail link which served as an economic and more[...]