Kolkata: Courts in all Bengal districts, including Kolkata, will try to discard all cases submitted since 2014 at the end of this year.
According to the national judicial data grid, Bengal has a case of around 25 lakh pendencies, which is around 6.3% of 3.9 crores waiting for cases in India.
Eight districts – Kolkata, victims and South 24 Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly, Nadia, Murshidabad, and West Midnapore – who have the highest fat case in this country will lead in this effort, said the action plan released by the Calcutta High Court.
Depressed by Digital Divide in Covid, the court throughout Bengal cannot function normally.
However, case landings have not passed because of lower cases proposed because of limited mobility and lack of access to online mode.
Eight districts with the highest case penetration (highest creature in Kolkata with 6 lakh pending cases) will also target to remove cases related to child abuse and crimes against women aged two years.
In addition, will try to dispose of corruption cases and three-year-old drug violations.
Also, the judges have been asked to take an urgent case where undrial spends two years or more in detention.
Roster Disposal similar cases have been set for districts with less landing cases.
District Court, after identifying cases under the action plan, will put them on their website, mention the hearing stage.
This will be updated on the 10th of each month.
Only judges or district judges and sessions can change or prioritize cases from the list.
Troubleshooting vacancies in several courts because of transfers, leave or resignation, the case backlog in the court must be distributed evenly among other judges, the plan proposes.
The action plan also proposed a reasonable time frame for the parties to be heard before the case was closed.
The High Court must also be updated at the disposal level of cases every month.
The way justice officers throw away cases will also display in their annual secret reports.
The plan said cases where the temporary command has passed need to be disposed in one month and the guarantee application must be heard within a week.
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