SC appointed amicus bats for more courts to try lawmakers

NEW DELHI:The Supreme Court has been informed that 12 special courts set up to try lawmakers exclusively have not been constituted on a uniform pattern, and their number needs to be raised to 19 for trying cases at the sessions level.

It has also been suggested to the Apex Court that another 51 such courts are required for magisterial trial cases.

The suggestion has been made by senior advocate Vijay Hansaria, appointed as amicus curiae for assisting the top court and preparing a report on the measures needed to effectively deal with the criminal cases against MPs and MLAs.

“Recommendation has been made for constitution of one special court for sessions cases and one for magisterial cases in each State/ UT, except where pendency is less than 10 in the State/ UT. Wherever such cases are more than 10, recommendation is based on minimum of one court at both levels for 65 pending trial cases,” as per the submission, filed through advocate Sneha Kalita.

Hansaria, who has been assisted by Kalita, has also suggested that all the high courts may be directed to assign criminal cases pending against MPs and MLAs to the special courts depending on the place of occurrence of the offence, residence of the witnesses and other such considerations. (AGENCIES)

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