Jharkhand Judiciary Mission & Vision Heed the Warnings Lighting the Path Judicial Setup Case Management 20 Old Cases Physical Verification of Entire Records Correction of Judicial Statistics Comprehensive Cause List of Ready Cases Specialized Benches In High Court Communication of Subordinate Courts With High Courts through email Judicial Work Status Report of Stay Matter Cases & Decentralization of cognigence taking Power Statistics Mission Mode Programme Annual Report (April-2011 to March-2012*) March of Law Two wings of Judiciary Judicial Academy State Legal Services Authority 13th Finance Commission and Infrastructure High Court of Jharkhand Doranda, Ranchi-834033 E-Courts Project The Way Forward * With addenda upto 30th April, 2012 COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS Meet together, Speak Together, Let our Mind be one accord Let our Hearts of one accord Let our aims be common and All of us be of one mind, so we may achieve our target well together Rig veda MISSION AND VISION "When an Institution No Longer Matters, we No Longer Matter." Hon'ble Mr. Justice S. H. Kapadia Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India, Chairman, National Judicial Academy India, Bhopal & Patron-in-Chief of National Legal Services Authority, New Delhi. Extract from Law Day speech by His Lordship on 26th November, 2011 at Supreme Court Lawns "Timely delivery of Justice is one of the major components of "Access to Justice" for the marginalized and underprivileged sections of the society." Hon'ble Mr. Justice Altamas Kabir Judge, Supreme Court of India & Executive Chairman, National Legal Services Authority, New Delhi. Based on the speech delivered by His Lordship on the occasion of the 10th Meet of NALSA on 3rd & 4th March, 2012 at Patna (Bihar) Former Chief Justice, High Court of Jharkhand elevated as Judge, Supreme Court of India Hon'ble Mrs. Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Judge, Supreme Court of India “ Case Management deals with the active role with the proper utilisation of time in the justice delivery system” Former Judge of High Court of Jharkhand elevated as Judge, Supreme Court of India Hon'ble Mr. Justice S. J. Mukhopadhaya Judge, Supreme Court of India "My personal exprience says, sincere efforts and commitments of High Court of Jharkhand will definetly bring the expected results in reducing the arrears and preventing unnecessary litigation." "Judiciary needs to commit itself 24x7 to achieve quality, timeliness and responsiveness of justice." Justice Prakash Tatia Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court Quoted from the Speech delivered on 18th September, 2011 at Nyaya Sadan, Ranchi, on the occasion of Interaction with the Principal District Judges & Chief Judicial Magistrates of Jharkhand Subordinate Judiciary. FORMER JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ELEVATED FROM HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND Hon'ble Mr. Justice P.K.Balasubramanyan* "Discipline at the workplace in an organisation is the sine qua non for the efficient working of an organisation ." *elevated as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 27.8.2004 and retired on 28.8.2007 FORMER CHIEF JUSTICES OF HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND Hon'ble Mr. Justice V.K. Gupta Hon'ble Mr. Justice Nelavoy Dhinakar th th (15 November, 2000 to 4 March, 2003) (4th December, 2005 to 9th June, 2006) Hon'ble Mr. Justice M. Karpaga Vinayagam Hon'ble Mr. Justice Bhagwati Prasad (17th September, 2006 to 15th May, 2008) (22nd August, 2010 to 12th May, 2011) JUDGE OF HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND ELEVATED AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF OTHER HIGH COURT Hon'ble Mr. Justice M.Y. Eqbal Chief Justice, Madras High Court “Every institution should strive hard to improve its quality of work and try to redress the grievances of the needy people, as enshrined in our Constitution” JUDGE OF HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND TRANSFERRED TO OTHER HIGH COURT Hon'ble Mr. Justice Tapen Sen Judge, Calcutta High Court TABLE OF CONTENTS Heed the Warnings....................................................................................................................................................... 1 Lighting the Path ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 Judicial Setup .................................................................................................................................................................. 7 v High Court................................................................................................................................................................. 9 v Members of Registry.......................................................................................................................................... 10 v Subordinate Courts ............................................................................................................................................ 10 Case Management of High Court ......................................................................................................... 11 v Task of Physical Verification of entire pending records of the cases: ....................................................................................................................... 13 v Communication of High Court with Subordinate Judiciary...............................................................19 v Comprehensive Cause List of Ready Cases Prepared.......................................................................... 27 v New Case Management software ................................................................................................................ 28 v Special benches constituted under N.I. Act and for other such urgent matters.. ............................................................................................................ 30 v Transfer of still pending First Appeals whose jurisdiction was vested in District Judge of Suit Value less than Rs. 2,50,000/-. ........................................................................................................31 v Institution and Disposal of Cases during last Financial Year (2011-12)................................................................................................................................. 32 Case Management of Subordinate Judiciary ................................................................................... 33 v Disposal of '20 old cases' ................................................................................................................................ 35 v Stay Matter Cases and Accessibility of each court with High Court ..............................................45 v Task of Physical Verification of entire pending cases in each Court of Subordinate Judiciary...................................................................................................... 52 v Correction of Judicial Statistics in Pending Cases................................................................................. 58 v Decentralisation of cognizance taking power of Chief Judicial Magistrate amongst all the Judicial Magistrates of the Judgeship in equitable manner ............................. 64 v Disposal of chronic arrears of Acceptance of Final Form & Protest Petition............................ 65 v Rejuvenating Criminal Justice System ...................................................................................................... 68 Mission Mode Programme .................................................................................................................... 81 v Institution and Disposal of cases of Subordinate Courts from April 2011 to April 2012....................................................................................................................... 86 Human Resource Management............................................................................................................ 89 Promoting the ADR Mechanism .......................................................................................................... 95 Two wings of Jharkhand High Court.................................................................................................. 99 v Judicial Academy .............................................................................................................................................. 101 v Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority ............................................................................................. 110 Mediation Centres & Activities ......................................................................................................... 117 March of Law ........................................................................................................................................... 125 13th Finance Commission and Infrastructure............................................................................. 143 e-Courts Project ..................................................................................................................................... 157 The Way Forward................................................................................................................................... 163 *Second Edition of the report after its launch on 21.5.2012. HEED THE WARNINGS Law is a social engineering to help the people. Therefore, we, the Members of Judicial Fraternity owe great responsibility to ensure timely delivery of justice which is of central importance in the development of modern inclusive democracy under the Rule of Law. Governance of Civil Society could be reality