Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 13 : Under the supervision of Chief Patron of State Judicial Academy and Chief Justice, High Court of Jammu and Kashmir, Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar, and Committee of Judges, State Judicial Academy comprising Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar, Chairman and Justice Janak Raj Kotwal, Member, the Jammu and Kashmir State Judicial Academy (JKSJA) today conducted one day "Conference on Delay and Arrears - Problems and Solutions: Strategy and Directions" for Judicial Officers of Kashmir province. Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir, Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar, Justice Ali Mohammad Magray, Justice Bansi Lal Bhat and Justice BS Walia addressed the Judicial Officers and suggested ways and means to overcome delay and arrears.
MK Hanjura, Registrar General, High Court of Jammu and Kashmir presented a brief overview of the conference.
All the District and Sessions Judges, Sub-Judges and Munsiffs of Kashmir province participated in the conference.
The deliberations were held in the backdrop of large pendency of cases which are more than 5 years old and to devise the methods to ensure speedy justice and access to justice for all. This is the 2nd consecutive conference held on the subject, earlier, for the Judicial Officers of Jammu province.
Justice B S Walia, in his speech, discussed in detail the problems leading to delay in cases. He said that people come to courts in order to get justice as quickly as possible and as judicial officials everybody owes a duty to ensure the justice as quickly as possible. Justice Bansi Lal Bhat said that several studies have been made to trace the causes of such delays and many remedial measures have been recommended too. He said that the constitutional goal is to provide social, economic and political justice to people and ways and means should be devised within the available resources to achieve the same. |
