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According to the 'State of the Judiciary' report, Delhi has a 61% shortage of residential accommodation for judicial officers – the highest successful India, alongside Jammu and Kashmir. (Representative Image)
“Rude” judges, judicial unit engaged successful “administrative” work, azygous stenographer successful magistrate courts, judicial unit travelling 100 km to travel to enactment – these are immoderate of the problems plaguing the little courts of Delhi arsenic per a missive written by a lawyer to Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Delhi High Court Chief Justice Manmohan.
In his missive dated September 30, Karkardooma tribunal advocator Puneet Tomar pointed retired definite problems successful Delhi’s territory courts that “adversely” impacted the moving atmosphere, affecting litigants, advocates and tribunal staff.
One occupation outlined was judicial officers being engaged successful “administrative” work. “…When determination are posts of administrative officers successful the hierarchy of territory tribunal establishments, wherefore is each the administrative enactment allotted to judicial officers,” asked the advocate.
Tomar besides pointed retired that contempt dense pendency of cases successful magistrate courts, they were operating with a azygous stenographer. “…how it is imaginable that a azygous stenographer is doing regular bid sheets, bail orders, signaling evidence, framing of charges, judgments and different miscellaneous enactment successful a regular cause-list of astir 70-80 cases,” helium wrote.
A December 2023 study by the Centre for Research and Planning of the Supreme Court, titled ‘State of the Judiciary’, had pointed retired that Delhi has a staggering 27.8% tribunal unit vacancies.
Besides “rude” judges, Tomar besides flagged that assorted tribunal unit question 100 km mundane conscionable to scope the court. “One of the unit members met maine successful Dwarka courts… He is simply a nonmigratory of Meerut and is posted astatine Dwarka tribunal complex. It takes him astir 4 hours to scope the tribunal from Meerut,” Tomar wrote.
According to the ‘State of the Judiciary’ report, Delhi has a 61% shortage of residential accommodation for judicial officers – the highest successful India, alongside Jammu and Kashmir.
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