Staff Reporter :
The Supreme Court (SC) administration has directed the lower courts to settle the corruption cases in 60 days after taking cognizance of their charges.
Registrar of the High Court (HC) division of the Supreme Court Abu Syed Diljar Hussain issued this notification to this effect with permission of the Chief Justice on Wednesday for quick disposal of the corruption cases.
The notification said divisional special judges’ courts and special judges’ courts have been formed in order to speedily settle the cases filed under the Anti-Corruption Commission law.
There is also a specific provision in the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1958 that these courts will finalise the trial proceedings of the corruption cases in 60 days after taking cognizance of their charges, it said.
Recently, it has been noticed that most of the district judges, sessions judges and metropolitan sessions judges keep these cases under their possessions or send the cases to additional sessions judges or joint session judges without sending them to the divisional special judges’ courts for holding their trials. As a result, these divisional special judges’ courts face shortages of cases for disposal.
Moreover, it has been noticed that these corruption-related cases are not being disposed by the divisional special judges’ courts or special judges’ courts within the fixed time.
In this circumstance, all district judges, sessions judges and metropolitan sessions judges are being directed to dispose of the corruption cases in the quickest time and to send such cases to divisional special judges’ courts or special judges’ courts within the stipulated time.
The divisional special judges’ courts or special judges’ courts have also been ordered to dispose of the cases by giving priority within the fixed time, the notification added.
The Supreme Court (SC) administration has directed the lower courts to settle the corruption cases in 60 days after taking cognizance of their charges.
Registrar of the High Court (HC) division of the Supreme Court Abu Syed Diljar Hussain issued this notification to this effect with permission of the Chief Justice on Wednesday for quick disposal of the corruption cases.
The notification said divisional special judges’ courts and special judges’ courts have been formed in order to speedily settle the cases filed under the Anti-Corruption Commission law.
There is also a specific provision in the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1958 that these courts will finalise the trial proceedings of the corruption cases in 60 days after taking cognizance of their charges, it said.
Recently, it has been noticed that most of the district judges, sessions judges and metropolitan sessions judges keep these cases under their possessions or send the cases to additional sessions judges or joint session judges without sending them to the divisional special judges’ courts for holding their trials. As a result, these divisional special judges’ courts face shortages of cases for disposal.
Moreover, it has been noticed that these corruption-related cases are not being disposed by the divisional special judges’ courts or special judges’ courts within the fixed time.
In this circumstance, all district judges, sessions judges and metropolitan sessions judges are being directed to dispose of the corruption cases in the quickest time and to send such cases to divisional special judges’ courts or special judges’ courts within the stipulated time.
The divisional special judges’ courts or special judges’ courts have also been ordered to dispose of the cases by giving priority within the fixed time, the notification added.
