Pendency in Courts

In our State, the judiciary has been doing excellent job. But for the uprightness of our judicial officers things would have gone hay way. However, the judiciary is faced with the problem of huge pendency. People want justice to be done and in a prospect of not getting justice from the administrative apparatus, they turn to the judiciary just because our judiciary is known for its impartiality. The problem for the judiciary is that it cannot cope with the quantum of pending cases which is unbelievably huge. The High Court is seized of this problem. In fact the Chief Justice is dissatisfied with the disposal of old cases and it has been formally conveyed to the subordinate courts. The Registrar General has impressed upon all the Principal District and Sessions Judges to submit progress report of their respective districts in the matter after every three months in the first week of preceding quarter so that progress and disposal of these cases is monitored. As a remedial measure the High Court has reconstituted a sub-committee to provide inputs and suggestions to the National Court Management Systems Committee for formulation and effective implementation of National Policy/Plan in pursuance to the resolution adopted in the Chief Justices’ Conference, 2013 for implementation of National Court Management Systems.
On September 1, 2009, the High Court had issued a circular asking all judicial officers in the State to furnish by the 7th of each month ‘work done statement’ to the Registrar of the High Court for the perusal of the Chief Justice… The purpose was that the Chief Justice wanted to know what progress has been made in reducing pendency, what is the status of existing cases especially those that are more than ten years old. Unfortunately, the subordinate courts have not responded to the instructions of the Chief Justice. This has made the CJ issue a warning to the judicial officers of all ranks that they must adhere to the instructions conveyed to them. The work done reports have to be sent in on monthly, quarterly, half yearly and yearly basis. In his warning letter, Registrar General has said that failure to comply with the instructions will mean indiscipline. In that case the matter would be referred to the Chief Justice and the defaulters would be liable to proper action.
We would like to appeal the judicial officers that realising the responsibility they owe to the nation, they should be the first to maintain discipline and allegiance to the law of the land. They cannot trivialize the recommendations of the Chief Justice and thus unwittingly do disservice to the people of the State. They have to remember that it is the people of the State who have vested enormous powers in them and they should not mishandle these powers.

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