Monitoring cell set up in AJK high court

Chief Justice of Azad Jammu and Kashmir High Court Justice Muhammad Riaz Akhtar Chaudhry has set up a monitoring cell to provide quick justice to the masses and to make judicial system more dynamic.
He announced this while addressing a conference here on Monday.
He said delay in decision of murder cases for years, same treatment to witness and accused, providing opportunities of counter claims without any legal justification, bail before arrest and stay orders creating numerous ills.
He said all these impediments are hindering the ability of judicial officers and the confidence of masses will erode from the judiciary if these practices remain in vogue.
He directed judicial officers not to admit any murder case until police produce witnesses in the court.
"The decision into murder cases be given within 40 days by conducting regular hearing," the chief justice directed.
He warned that those judicial officers who do not implement his directive would forfeit their right to continue in office. He made it clear that there was no room for dishonest and unqualified officers in judiciary.
He cancelled all intervals in lower courts from 9am to 12:45pm and ordered that all judges and Qazis will remain present in courts.
The chief justice asked them to make sure the performing of collective prayers in the premises of courtrooms.
He regretted that trail into murder cases had been continued for nine years while decision into civil cases trail take 15 to 20 years. "Its extremely regrettable," he said.
Muhammad Riaz Akhtar Chaudhry, who took oath of chief justice last week after his predecessor Justice Manzoor Hussain Gilani was appointed as Supreme Court Judge, observed that the clerical staff in lower courts does not issue a copy without taking money.
He urged judges of lower courts to make sure that they themselves issue these copies.
The chief justice asked them to send the cause list to the monitoring cell through fax a day earlier, while previous day's cause list be send along with progress report of judges.
He warned that action would be taken against those judges and Qazis who will not fax their progress reports to the monitoring cell.
"Dishonest judges and Qazis considered themselves dismissed from today," he warned.
He stated that promotion of lower courts judges and Qazis will be made on their progress and no action will be taken against them on any false complain and they do not need to be blackmailed at the hands of others.