Chandigarh: When the court has grappled with increasing case backlogs and increasing new case institutions every year, as many as 283 posts of justice officers are empty in subordinate trials throughout Haryana, 143 in Punjab, 14 in Himachal and three in Chandigarh.
Likewise, there are 39 jury posts that are not filled in Punjab and Haryana High Court and three in the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
Because lower justice is considered the main interface between people and justice systems, there are 772 positions of judicial officials in the subordinate court in Haryana, 692 in Punjab, 175 in Himachal Pradesh and 30 in Chandigarh.
Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju shared this information in the ongoing rainy season session from Parliament.
He told me that during the Covid pandemic – between March 2020 and June 2021 – various district courts in 34 states and the United States removed 97.21 cases of lakh through a digital and physical hearing.
From here, the subordinate court in Punjab waste 3.65 lakh cases, 2.80 lakh cases were thrown in Haryana, 2.29 lakh at Himachal Pradesh and 10,671 in Chandigarh.
For the agreed strength of 1,098 judges in 25 high courts throughout the country, as many as 454 vacancies have not been filled, said Rijju.
The Punjab High Court and Haryana have the power of 85 sanctions and the Himachal Pradesh High Court should have 13 judges.
Whereas only seven judges were appointed in the Punjab High Court and Haryana in 2018, 10 in 2019 and one in 2020.
But only two judges were appointed in the Himachal Pradesh High Court in the last three years, in 2019.
Exit from a total of 46.
Presenting the Judge In the Punjab High Court and Haryana, seven were women.
There was one female judge of a total of 10 servings in the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
Efforts to accelerate the process of removal of the Minister of Law told Lok Sabha, “Filling vacancies in the High Court is a sustainable, integrated and collaborative process between executive and justice.
Consultation and approval from various constitutional authorities both at the state and central level.
Every effort is made To accelerate the protection of judges after the legal procedure before the occurrence of vacancies.
As far as the recruitment of judicial officers in the subordinate court, each of the high courts did it in certain countries, while the High Court did it by consulting the state public service commissions in other countries, he added.
HCS wasted 45% civilian, 65% of criminal cases in several years of the Minister of Law told that in the High Court throughout the country, almost 45% of civil cases and 65% of criminal cases were disposed of in one year.
Likewise, 21% of civil cases and 24% of criminal cases need between 1-2 years for final disposal, 8% of civil cases and 3% of criminal cases are disposed of between 2-3 years.
While the subordinate court throughout the country dumped nearly 37% of civil cases and 75% of criminal cases in one year, 22% of civilians and 9% of criminal cases between 1-2 years and 12% of criminal cases and 4% of criminals between 2-3 years
The Haryana Subordinate Court has 284 Judge vacancies, Punjab 103
