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country. At the outset let me admit that all is not well about the service
credentials of district judiciary. We have little achievements to our credit to
paint hardly a rosy picture.
To be brief, the most difficult task is to encircle the problem areas .
Thereafter the solutions to the problem are not hard to be found out.
A. Delay in adjudication.
B. Ex-parte and fraudulent decrees.
C. Abscondence of accused.
D. Imbalanced equation between the bench
and bar.
Following are the main reasons for delay in administration of justice:
I. Summoning of respondent or accused.
II. Inexperienced or unwilling judges and lawyers.
III. Procedural glitches.
IV. Non-cooperative attitude of lawyers.
V. Role of investigating agency
VI. Non-appearance of witnesses.
i. Summoning through SMS and recorded phone calls along with
conventional modes of service.
ii. Establishment of bailiff agency headed by serving police inspector.
iii. Fixing of time frame for civil and criminal cases.
iv. Miscellaneous applications should be coupled with arguments.
v. Revamping civil and criminal procedure codes and law of evidence.
vi. Improving service of process serving agency.
vii. Biometric attendance of process servers.
viii.Training of judges and lawyers.
ix. Introduction of interim relief clause in CPC.
x. Allocation of time and date to the lawyers.
xi. Holding the lawyers accountable and bring them under some discipline.
Administration of civil justice system is plagued with ex-parte and
fraudulent decrees which takes decades to be remedied
I. There is no system to curb false and frivolous litigation.
II. Summoning system needs to be improved and made effective.