Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 27: High Court has worked out an Action Plan for disposal of pending cases by ending March 2018.
As per the circular issued by Registrar Vigilance, all the Principal and Additional District and Sessions Judges shall take steps to decide/dispose of all cases of under-trials by March 31, 2018 where the charge-sheet has been filed on or before March 31, 2015.
They have also been asked to decide and dispose of all criminal revisions by ending March 2018 filed on or before June 30, 2017; dispose of all criminal challans (irrespective of involvement of under-trials) wherein chargesheet has been filed on or before March 31, 2013 and decide all criminal appeals filed on or before March 30, 2016.
As far as civil cases are concerned, all the Principal and Additional District and Sessions Judges have been asked to decide all civil original suits and other civil matters which have been filed by or before March 31, 2013, all civil miscellaneous appeals filed on or before June 30, 2017 and all regular appeals filed till March 31, 2013.
The Special Judges (CBI) Jammu/Srinagar and Special Judges Anti-Corruption of the State have been asked to decide all cases filed on or before March 31, 2013 by March 31, 2018.
Similarly, all the Civil Judges and Judicial Magistrates have been asked to take effective steps to decide all cases of under-trials where the charge-sheet has been filed on or before March 31, 2016 by March 31, 2018; dispose of all criminal challans wherein charge-sheet has been filed on or before March 31, 2013 by March 31, 2018.
As far as civil cases are concerned, they have been asked to decide all the civil original suits and other civil matters which have been filed by or before March 31, 2013. “If in any court there is no case, instituted on or before March 31, 2013, such courts shall decide and dispose of all those civil matters which have been instituted on or before March 31, 2016”, read the circular.
“All the bail applications shall be decided within a week in terms of order dated March 5, 2017 of Apex Court passed in the case titled Hussain and Another Versus Union of India”, the circular further reads. It has also been directed that all the cases where interim stay orders have been passed shall be decided within one month of passing of order.
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