The Delhi High Court has issued notice in a plea seeking a direction to the Delhi Government to make Fast Track Courts a permanent feature..Calling for replacement of the current ad hoc scheme, the plea seeks the appointment of 20 Additional District & Sessions Judges in the Delhi Higher Judicial Services, along with 95 ancillary staff on a permanent basis for such Fast Track Courts..The public interest litigation filed through Advocate Sumit Chander also seeks a direction to the Delhi Government to create 22 posts in the Delhi Higher Judicial Services for commercial court judges along with the ancillary staff..Notice in the petition was issued to the Delhi Government and the Registrar General of Delhi High Court by a Division Bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice Anup J Bhambhani..The Court has also asked the Registrar General to submit a detailed status report with respect to the current status of Fast Track Courts in Delhi..The petition was preferred by Parag Chawla on the ground that the Delhi Government had failed to discharge its constitutional obligation to provide speedy justice by failing to create Fast Track Courts on a permanent basis..In defiance of the decision of the Supreme Court in Brij Mohan Lal vs UOI (2012), which mandated setting up of permanent Fast Track Courts at the sessions court level, the Delhi Government instead proceeded with ad hoc extensions of the existing Fast Track Court (FTC) posts in the national capital, the petition states..The petitioner further brings to notice a letter written by the High Court to the Delhi Government, requesting it to make the FTC scheme a permanent feature. Subsequently, the Delhi Government conveyed the sanction from the Finance Department towards the creation of posts of 20 Additional District Judges and 95 posts of ancillary staff. The same was, however, sanctioned only for a period of one year..Thereafter, no permanent courts were set up, and only yearly sanctions were granted by the Delhi Government, the petition further contends..It is also remarked that Delhi Government has been claiming in the media that the High Court has been mulling over its request to make the FTC scheme permanent, while the actual position is the other way around..The petition also relies on statistics to show the inability of the present infrastructure to provide speedy justice to the litigants in Delhi. As on February 22, 2019, a total number of 7,39,730 cases are pending in Delhi District Courts, the petition states..The matter will be next heard on May 16.
The Delhi High Court has issued notice in a plea seeking a direction to the Delhi Government to make Fast Track Courts a permanent feature..Calling for replacement of the current ad hoc scheme, the plea seeks the appointment of 20 Additional District & Sessions Judges in the Delhi Higher Judicial Services, along with 95 ancillary staff on a permanent basis for such Fast Track Courts..The public interest litigation filed through Advocate Sumit Chander also seeks a direction to the Delhi Government to create 22 posts in the Delhi Higher Judicial Services for commercial court judges along with the ancillary staff..Notice in the petition was issued to the Delhi Government and the Registrar General of Delhi High Court by a Division Bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice Anup J Bhambhani..The Court has also asked the Registrar General to submit a detailed status report with respect to the current status of Fast Track Courts in Delhi..The petition was preferred by Parag Chawla on the ground that the Delhi Government had failed to discharge its constitutional obligation to provide speedy justice by failing to create Fast Track Courts on a permanent basis..In defiance of the decision of the Supreme Court in Brij Mohan Lal vs UOI (2012), which mandated setting up of permanent Fast Track Courts at the sessions court level, the Delhi Government instead proceeded with ad hoc extensions of the existing Fast Track Court (FTC) posts in the national capital, the petition states..The petitioner further brings to notice a letter written by the High Court to the Delhi Government, requesting it to make the FTC scheme a permanent feature. Subsequently, the Delhi Government conveyed the sanction from the Finance Department towards the creation of posts of 20 Additional District Judges and 95 posts of ancillary staff. The same was, however, sanctioned only for a period of one year..Thereafter, no permanent courts were set up, and only yearly sanctions were granted by the Delhi Government, the petition further contends..It is also remarked that Delhi Government has been claiming in the media that the High Court has been mulling over its request to make the FTC scheme permanent, while the actual position is the other way around..The petition also relies on statistics to show the inability of the present infrastructure to provide speedy justice to the litigants in Delhi. As on February 22, 2019, a total number of 7,39,730 cases are pending in Delhi District Courts, the petition states..The matter will be next heard on May 16.
