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CJ demands twice as many subordinate judges

Local December 27, 2015

Chief Justice SK Sinha on Saturday requested the government to raise the number of subordinate court judges by at least two times.
He said it was no way possible for the 1,300 judges now manning the subordinate courts to dispose of 27 lakh pending cases.
Addressing the maiden National Judicial Conference, the Chief Justice said that out of 1,500 subordinate court judges, 1,300 were now performing judicial duties while the rest were serving elsewhere on deputation.
President Abdul Hamid spoke as the chief guest while all the judges of the Supreme Court and the subordinate courts attended.
The Chief Justice also requested the government to immediately recruit 383 assistant and senior judges to fill up vacancies.
He also requested the government to appoint law officers and legal advisers for various ministries and institutions, including the law ministry, the police administration, Parliament secretariat and the University Grant Commission, so that the judges serving these institutions on deputation could return to the subordinate courts.
He said that the return of the subordinate judges would reduce the burden of cases on the lower courts and help speed up the rate of pending case disposal.
He said that by trying and handing punishments to the killers of Bangabandu and the four national leaders the judiciary freed the nation from a big stigma.
He said by bringing many war criminals to justice the judiciary earned the confidence of the people and the world.
He said that the judiciary strengthened the democratic system and the rule of the law by showing zero tolerance to all sorts of terror by delivering its verdict against the JMB’s subversive activities and murders of judges.
He praised the lower court for the speedy trial of the BDR murder case.
He said that the judiciary earned the confidence of the people by handing exemplary punishments to the hated offenders of the the 10-truck arms-haul case of Chittagong.
He praised by striking down the caretaker government system the Supreme Court established the sovereign voting rights of the people.
The Chief Justice also said that the judiciary banished the possibility of military rule from the country once for all by striking down the fifth and the seventh amendments from the Constitution.
In 10 months from January 17, the Appellate Division disposed of 9,356 pending cases or 162 per cent of the cases, compared to 5,789 cases of the corresponding period of previous year, he said.
During the same period this year, the High Court disposed of 33,380 pending cases or 149 per cent of the cases compared to 22,477 cases of the corresponding period of the last year, he said.
The chief justice said that the lower court disposed of 10.67 lakh pending cases or 107 per cent cases from January to September 2015 compared to 9.97 lakh of the corresponding period of the last year.
He said 12,462 cases were pending with the Appellate Division while the number of pending cases with the High Court was 3,89,310 until September 30.