District Legal Empowerment Committees

FACTSHEET District Legal Empowerment Committees

The District Legal Empowerment committees (DLECs) are Following the review of performance of DLECs, it is revealed that optimum constituted by the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan benefit of this forum is not being achieved for the reasons like lack of awareness, (LJCP) to provide free legal aid to persons unable to pursue case selection process, non-holding of monthly meetings, composition of their rights in court of law for want of financial hardship. Committee, and lengthy status determination process of the applicants, etc. In Initially, such committees were constituted in 108 districts order to improve their performance, LJCP Secretariat held meetings with however after merger of erstwhile FATA and inclusion of four respective DLECs to identify bottlenecks or irritants affecting their performance newly created judicial districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa their and compiled suggestions for reformation of rules regulating DLECs. Shortly, the number increased to 124. same will be placed before the Commission for consideration.

The establishment of DLECs is an important initiative of LJCP This Factsheet, containing data and information, is being published to share the whereby a substantial amount from the Access to Justice performance of DLECs for evaluation and devising policy to improve their Development Fund (AJDF) is placed at the disposal of DLECs for performance by extending support to most vulnerable and deserving segment of extending benefit to the deserving litigants in terms of society. We look forward to your feedback and suggestions to improve our professional fee of lawyer, court fee, copying charges, process services. fee and any other area which the Committee may deem appropriate. To date, through these committees, free legal aid has been provided in around 3300 cases and 32.00 million rupees disbursed as professional fee to the lawyers engaged for this purpose. Fund Utilization Status

Funds released Funds Province No.of DLECs Balance (PKR in million) Utilized Punjab 36 22.8 10.74 12.06 Sindh 27 13.2 5.22 7.98 Funds KPK 35 15.2 8.43 6.77 Balance, Utilized, 32M, 51% 32.2M, 49% Balochistan 24 12.2 7.39 4.81 ICT 2* 0.8 0.42 0.38 Total 124 64.2 32.2 32

* Judicial Districts of Islamabad – East & West Fund Utilization Status (in Millions – Rupees)

Balance, 12.06

Utilized Balance

Balance, 6.77

Balance, 4.81 Balance, 7.98

10.74 46% Utilization 8.43 7.39 0.42 55% 60.5% Balance, 0.38 5.22 Utilization 52% Utilization 40% Utilization Utilization

PUNJAB SINDH KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA BALOCHISTAN ISLAMABAD Province Wise Number of Cases Dealt 2000

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0 Punjab Sindh KPK Balochistan ICT Cases Dealt 1727 415 708 617 49 Female, Juvenile, 204, 6% Performance 10, 0%

No. of Cases Province Criminal Civil Male Female Juvenile Dealt

Punjab 1727 1676 51 1628 97 2

Sindh 415 376 39 401 14 0 Male, 3302, 94%

KPK 708 654 54 646 59 3

Balochistan 617 580 37 582 30 5 Civil, 187, 5% ICT 49 43 6 45 4 0

Total 3516 3329 187 3302 204 10

* Judicial Districts of Islamabad – East & West

Criminal, 3329, 95% Top Performing Districts – No. of Cases Dealt

Punjab National Top Ten Performing Districts Lodhran 117 Chakwal 99 District Province Number of Cases Dealt Vehari 98 Lodhran Punjab 117 Sindh Jacobabad 58 Chakwal Punjab 99 Karachi East. 34 Larkana 30 Vehari Punjab 98 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Quetta. Balochistan 93 Dir Lower 67 Swat 57 Haripur 51 Sargodha Punjab 88

Balochistan Sheikhupura Punjab 82 Quetta. 93 Sibi. 65 Bhakkar Punjab 81 Makran at Turbat (Kech) 64 Islamabad Rajanpur Punjab 80 Islamabad – East 34 Rahim Yar Khan Punjab 79 DLEC - Punjab Punjab – District Wise Fund Utilization

Name Total Released Funds Utilized Balance of Funds % of Utilization Sahiwal 400,000 393,000 7,000 98% Chakwal 800,000 745,000 55,000 93% Bhakkar 400,000 335,250 64,750 84% Sialkot 400,000 315,250 84,750 79% Vehari 1,000,000 613,700 386,300 61% Top Percentage Utilization Faisalabad 1,000,000 597,000 403,000 60% Sahiwal 98% Nankana Sahib 400,000 238,000 162,000 60% Chakwal 93% M.B Din 400,000 232,000 168,000 58% Bhakkar 84% Gujranwala 600,000 347,500 252,500 58% Sialkot 79% Sargodha 800,000 461,500 338,500 58% Vehari 61% Jhelum 800,000 450,600 349,400 56% D.G.Khan* 800,000 423,000 377,000 53% Rajanpur 1,000,000 523,000 477,000 52% Rahim Yar Khan 800,000 415,000 385,000 52% Least Percentage Utilization Khushab 400,000 205,500 194,500 51% Chiniot 1,000,000 512,993 487,007 51% Kasur 26% Okara 800,000 380,000 420,000 48% Attock 15% Narowal 800,000 375,000 425,000 47% Pakpattan 11% Lodhran 400,000 179,666 220,334 45% Khanewal 9% Jhang 800,000 353,900 446,100 44% Rawalpindi 6% Hafizabad 800,000 348,500 451,500 44% Lahore 800,000 340,000 460,000 43% Toba Tek Singh 600,000 235,500 364,500 39% Fund Utilization Status Layyah 800,000 292,000 508,000 37% Muzaffargarh 400,000 145,500 254,500 36% Multan 400,000 145,000 255,000 36% Mianwali 600,000 188,000 412,000 31% Bahawalnagar 400,000 120,500 279,500 30% Funds Sheikhupura 400,000 117,500 282,500 29% Balance, Utilized, Gujrat** 800,000 217,500 582,500 27% 53% Bahawalpur 400,000 107,750 292,250 27% 47% Kasur 800,000 210,000 590,000 26% Attock 400,000 60,000 340,000 15% Pakpattan 400,000 43,338 356,662 11% Khanewal 600,000 52,000 548,000 9% Rawalpindi 400,000 24,000 376,000 6% Total 22,800,000 10,743,947 12,056,053 46 Punjab – Litigant Facilitation Performance Highest Number of Cases Dealt Name No.of Cases Dealt Criminal Civil Male Female Juvenile Lodhran 117 Lodhran 117 117 0 117 0 0 Chakwal 99 Chakwal 99 98 1 96 3 0 Vehari 98 Vehari 98 97 1 65 32 1 Sargodha 88 Sargodha 88 88 0 86 2 0 Sheikhupura 82 Sheikhupura 82 80 2 79 3 0 Bhakkar 81 64 17 69 12 0 Rajanpur 80 78 2 75 5 0 Lowest Number of Cases Dealt Rahim Yar Khan 79 78 1 78 1 0 Gujranwala 15 Okara 72 71 1 70 2 0 Khanewal 7 Multan 71 71 0 71 0 0 Pakpattan 5 Bahawalnagar 65 64 1 63 2 0 Rawalpindi 2 M.B Din 60 60 0 60 0 0 Attock 1 Jhang 58 56 2 57 1 0 Sahiwal 58 58 0 58 0 0 Faisalabad 49 42 7 45 4 0 Sialkot 49 49 0 49 0 0 Juvenile, 2, Gender Wise Gujrat** 45 45 0 39 6 0 Layyah 45 39 6 42 3 0 0% Jhelum 42 41 1 41 1 0 Female , 92, D.G.Khan* 40 38 2 39 1 0 5% Kasur 39 39 0 39 0 0 Nankana Sahib 35 35 0 29 5 1 Narowal 35 34 1 34 1 0 Male , 1628, Muzaffargarh 31 31 0 29 2 0 95% Toba Tek Singh 31 26 5 27 4 0 Lahore 30 30 0 29 1 0 Hafizabad 27 27 0 27 0 0 Chiniot 26 26 0 26 0 0 Mianwali 25 25 0 20 5 0 Category Wise Khushab 24 24 0 24 0 0 Bahawalpur 16 16 0 16 0 0 Civil, 51, 3% Gujranwala 15 15 0 15 0 0 Khanewal 7 7 0 7 0 0 Criminal, Pakpattan 5 4 1 4 1 0 1676, 97% Rawalpindi 2 2 0 2 0 0 Attock 1 1 0 1 0 0 Total 1,727 1,676 51 1,628 97 2 DLEC - Sindh Sindh – District Wise Fund Utilization Balance % of Name of DLEC Total Released Funds Utilized Amount Utilization Badin 400,000 349,250 50,750 87% Tando Muhammad Khan 600,000 476,209 123,791 79% Karachi East. 400,000 315,000 85,000 79% Top Percentage Utilization Sukkur 600,000 444,500 155,500 74% Dadu 400,000 294,000 106,000 74% Badin 87% Jacobabad 800,000 561,296 238,704 70% Tando Muhammad Khan 79% Karachi East. 79% Matiari 400,000 230,000 170,000 58% Sukkur 74% Larkana 800,000 387,975 412,025 48% Dadu 74% Kashmore @ Kandhkot 600,000 280,000 320,000 47% Hyderabad 800,000 367,765 432,245 46% Tharparkar@ Mithi 400,000 177,471 222,529 44% Least Percentage Utilization Karachi Central 400,000 162,500 237,500 41% Mirpur Khas 3% Umerkot 600,000 243,395 356,605 41% Shaheed Benazir Abad. 0% Jamshoro @ Kotri 400,000 155,000 245,000 39% Tando Allah Yar 0% Ghotki 400,000 150,000 250,000 38% Naushahro Feroze 0% Thatta 600,000 173,835 426,165 29% Malir. 0% Shikarpur 400,000 92,000 308,000 23% Khairpur 400,000 80,000 320,000 20% Fund Utilization Status Kambar @ Shahdadkot 400,000 70,000 330,000 18% Karachi South 600,000 95,350 504,650 16% Sanghar 400,000 50,871 349,129 13% Funds Karachi West. 400,000 50,534 349,466 13% Utilized, Mirpur Khas 400,000 10,000 390,000 3% 40% Balance, Shaheed Benazir Abad. 400,000 800 399,200 0% 60% Tando Allah Yar 400,000 423 399,577 0% Naushahro Feroze 400,000 0 400,000 0% Malir. 400,000 0 400,000 0% TOTAL 13,200,000 5,218,174 7,981,836 40% Sindh – Litigant Facilitation Performance Highest Number of Cases Dealt Name of DLEC No.of Cases Dealt Criminal Civil Male Female Juvenile Jacobabad 58 58 0 58 0 0 Jacobabad 58 Karachi East. 34 Karachi East. 34 30 4 30 4 0 Larkana 30 Larkana 30 30 0 30 0 0 Sukkur 29 Sukkur 29 29 0 29 0 0 Hyderabad 29 Hyderabad 29 26 3 29 0 0 Tando Muhammad 25 25 0 25 0 0 Lowest Number of Cases Dealt Khan 23 2 23 2 0 Mirpur Khas 1 Dadu 25 1 21 21 1 0 Shaheed Benazir Abad. 0 Thatta 22 21 1 21 1 0 Tando Allah Yar 0 Karachi South 22 Naushahro Feroze 0 18 0 18 0 0 Badin 18 Malir. 0 18 0 18 0 0 Kashmore @ Kandhkot 18 16 0 16 0 0 Umerkot 16 15 0 15 0 0 Gender Wise Jamshoro @ Kotri 15 8 6 10 4 0 Karachi Central 14 10 0 10 0 0 Juvenile, 2, Matiari 10 Female , 92, 8 2 8 2 0 0% Ghotki 10 19% 8 0 8 0 0 Tharparkar@ Mithi 8 Sanghar 8 8 0 8 0 0 Khairpur 7 7 0 7 0 0 Male , 401, Kambar @ Shahdadkot 6 6 0 6 0 0 81% Shikarpur 5 5 0 5 0 0 Karachi West. 5 5 0 5 0 0 Mirpur Khas 1 1 0 1 0 0 Category Wise Shaheed Benazir Abad. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Civil, 39, 9% Tando Allah Yar 0 0 0 0 0 0 Naushahro Feroze 0 0 0 0 0 0 Criminal, 0 0 0 0 0 Malir. 0 376, 91% TOTAL 415 376 39 401 14 0 DLEC – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – District Wise Fund Utilization Total Balance Percentage of Name of DLEC Total Released Utilization Status Amount utilization (%) Dera Ismail Khan 400,000 398,700 1,300 100% Bannu 600,000 592,500 7,500 99% Shangla 400,000 390,000 10,000 98% Swat 1,000,000 952,525 47,475 95% Mardan 400,000 308,235 91,765 77% Top Percentage Utilization Haripur 1,000,000 755,000 245,000 76% Dera Ismail Khan 100% Lakki Marwat 400,000 300,000 100,000 75% Bannu 99% Battagram 400,000 287,151 112,849 72% Shangla 98% Kohat 800,000 498,300 301,700 62% Swat 95% Dir Upper 400,000 247,000 153,000 62% Mardan 77% Swabi 800,000 493,000 307,000 62% Abbottabad 400,000 230,000 170,000 58% Chitral Lower 800,000 437,500 362,500 55% Buner at Daggar 400,000 206,000 194,000 52% Least Percentage Utilization Charsadda 600,000 306,000 294,000 51% Peshawar 400,000 200,000 200,000 50% Nowshera 38% Dir Lower 800,000 390,000 410,000 49% Kohistan Upper at Dassu 34% Karak 800,000 371,000 429,000 46% Manshera 32% Hangu 800,000 320,700 479,300 40% Malakand at Batkhela 27% Nowshera 600,000 225,000 375,000 38% Tank 8% Kohistan Upper at Dassu 400,000 136,000 264,000 34% Manshera 800,000 252,250 547,750 32% Malakand at Batkhela 400,000 106,000 294,000 27% Fund Utilization Status Tank 400,000 30,000 370,000 8% South Waziristan 200,000 - 200,000 - Newly Merged Districts Bajaur - - - - Khyber - - - - Balance, Kurram 200,000 - 200,000 - Mohmand - - - 45% Funds North Waziristan 200,000 - 200,000 - Utilized, Orakzai 200,000 - 200,000 - 55% Chitral Upper - - - - Kohistan Lower - - - - Kolai Pallas 200,000 - 200,000 - Torghar - - - -

TOTAL 15,200,000 8,432,861 6,767,139 55 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Litigant Facilitation Performance Name of DLEC No. of cases Dealt Criminal Civil Male Female Juvnile Highest Number of Cases Dealt Dir Lower 67 64 3 60 7 0 Swat 57 36 21 42 13 2 Dir Lower 67 Haripur 51 46 5 42 9 0 Swat 57 Kohat 48 46 2 45 3 0 Haripur 51 Swabi 47 46 1 42 5 0 Kohat 48 Buner at Daggar 43 40 3 41 2 0 Swabi 47 Manshera 41 39 2 41 0 0 Hangu 35 35 0 35 0 0 Karak 34 34 0 34 0 0 Lowest Number of Cases Dealt Mardan 33 33 0 30 2 1 Bannu 10 Chitral Lower 33 25 8 27 6 0 Kohistan Upper at Dassu 10 Dera Ismail Khan 30 30 0 27 3 0 Charsadda 8 Lakki Marwat 30 28 2 29 1 0 Malakand at Batkhela 3 Peshawar 30 30 0 30 0 0 Tank 2 Shangla 28 28 0 27 1 0 Battagram 22 21 1 20 2 0 14 4 0 Gender Wise Dir Upper 18 14 4 Juvenile, 3, Nowshera 15 15 0 15 0 0 Abbottabad 13 11 2 12 1 0 Female , 49, 0% Bannu 10 10 0 10 0 0 7% Kohistan Upper at Dassu 10 10 0 10 0 0 Charsadda 8 8 0 8 0 0 Malakand at Batkhela 3 3 0 3 0 0 Tank 2 2 0 2 0 0 South Waziristan ------Newly Merged Districts Male , 646, Bajaur ------Khyber ------93% Kurram ------Mohmand ------North Waziristan ------Category Wise Orakzai ------Chitral Upper ------Civil, 54, 8% Kohistan Lower ------Kolai Pallas ------Criminal, Torghar ------654, 92% TOTAL 708 654 54 646 59 3 DLEC - Balochistan Balochistan – District Wise Fund Utilization

Total Balance Name of DLEC Total Released Funds Utilization % Utilization Amount Dera Allah Yar. 800,000 800,000 0 100.00% Loralai. 400,000 385,000 15,000 96.25% Quetta. 800,000 759,943 40,057 94.99% Top Percentage Utilization Dera Bugti. 400,000 370,000 30,000 92.55% Dera Allah Yar. 100% Makran at Turbat (Kech) 800,000 704,000 96,000 88.00% Loralai. 96.25% Quetta. 94.99% Kharan. 400,000 347543 52,457 86.89% Dera Bugti. 92.5% Nasirabad 400,000 342,000 58,000 85.50% Makran at Turbat (Kech) 88% Gwadar. 400,000 338,088 61,912 84.52% Sibi. 800,000 605,000 195,000 75.62% Zhob. 400,000 257000 143,000 64.25% Least Percentage Utilization Hub. 400,000 255175 144,825 63.79% Khuzdar. 22.5% Killa Abdullah at Chaman 16.75% Barkhan at Rakhni 400,000 250850 149,150 62.71% Musakhel. 6.25% Pishin. 800,000 436,000 364,000 54.50% Killa Saifullah 0% Dilbandin 0% Kalat. 810,000 440,000 370,000 54.32% Panjgoor. 400,000 210000 190,000 52.50% Nushki. 400,000 195,115 204,885 48.78% Fund Utilization Status Mastung (Kalat sub-Division) 600,000 265000 335,000 44.17% Usta Muhammad. 400,000 150000 250,000 37.50% Kohlu. 400,000 100000 300,000 25.00% Balance, Khuzdar. 400,000 90000 310,000 22.50% 39% Killa Abdullah at Chaman 400,000 67,000 333,000 16.75% Funds Musakhel. 400,000 25,000 375,000 6.25% Utilized, Killa Saifullah 400,000 0 400,000 0% 61% Dilbandin 400,000 0 400,000 0% TOTAL 12,210,000 7,392,714 4,817,286 60.55 Balochistan – Litigant Facilitation Performance Highest Number of Cases Dealt

Quetta. 93 Name of DLEC No.of Cases Dealt Criminal Civil Male Female Juvnile Sibi. 65 Makran at Turbat (Kech) 64 Quetta. 93 92 1 90 2 1 Loralai. 43 Nasirabad 42 Sibi. 65 65 0 64 1 0 Makran at Turbat (Kech) 64 64 0 63 0 1 Loralai. 43 43 0 43 0 0 Lowest Number of Cases Dealt Nasirabad 42 40 2 40 2 0 Khuzdar. 7 Kohlu. 5 Dera Allah Yar. 40 40 0 40 0 0 Musakhel. 3 Gwadar. 34 33 1 31 3 0 Killa Saifullah 0 Pishin. 32 32 0 32 0 0 Dilbandin 0 Kharan. 28 16 12 22 6 0 Hub. 26 26 0 26 0 0 Gender Wise Zhob. 24 24 0 23 1 0 Juvenile, 5, Mastung (Kalat sub-Division) 22 17 5 20 2 0 Female , 30, 1% Kalat. 18 18 0 16 0 2 5% Dera Bugti. 14 12 2 14 0 0 Barkhan at Rakhni 13 13 0 13 0 0 Nushki. 13 0 13 0 13 0 Killa Abdullah at Chaman 12 11 1 11 0 1 Male , 582, 94% Panjgoor. 11 11 0 11 0 0 Usta Muhammad. 8 8 0 8 0 0 Khuzdar. 7 7 0 7 0 0 Category Wise Kohlu. 5 5 0 5 0 0 Civil, 37, 6% Musakhel. 3 3 0 3 0 0 Killa Saifullah 0 0 0 0 0 0 Criminal, Dilbandin 0 0 0 0 0 0 580, 94% TOTAL 617 580 37 582 30 5 DLEC - Islamabad Islamabad – Fund Utilization

Top Percentage Utilization

Islamabad-East 68.1%

Funds Released Funds % of District Balance (07-02-2018) Utilized Utilization Least Percentage Utilization Islamabad-West 36.3% Islamabad-East 400,000 272,350 127,650 68.1

Islamabad-West 400,000 145,175 254,825 36.3

Total 800,000 417,525 382,475 52.19 Fund Utilization Status

Balance, Funds 48% Utilized, 52% Islamabad – Litigant Facilitation Performance

No.of District Criminal Civil Male Female Juvnile Highest Number of Cases Dealt cases Islamabad – East 34 Islamabad-East 34 32 2 34 0 0

Islamabad-West 15 11 4 11 4 0 Lowest Number of Cases Dealt Islamabad - West 15 Total 49 43 6 45 4 0

Category Wise

Gender Wise Juvenile, 0, 0% Female , 4, Civil, 6, 12% 8%

Male , 45, Criminal, 43, 92% 88% Criminal Civil Male Female Juvenile