The countrys first mobile court on Thursday travelled to rural Tarnab Farm area and decided 31 cases, including years long land disputes, within two and a half hours.
The special green coach comprising several portions, including a small courtroom, judges chamber, drivers cabin, and litigants waiting section left the premises of the Peshawar Judicial Complex and reached the Agricultural Institute in Tarnab Farm area for deciding the cases of the people at their doorsteps.
Civil Judge-cum-Judicial Magistrate Fazal-e-Wadood decided 31 out of 37 cases. Out of the 31 cases, eight were of civil nature, including land and property disputes and 23 criminal cases.
Within an hour, the mobile court decided two complicated cases of land disputes, which had been running in the regular courts for the past 10 and seven years and claimed several lives from both sides.
Friends of the court, including Muhammad Ashfaq, Wajid Hussain and Sikandar Khan along with the local elders first mediated between the rival groups Sahar Gul and Badam Gul, the brothers who had land dispute and their case was running over the past 10 years in the regular court.
They also mediated in another case of land dispute, in which three persons had been murdered between the parties of Sharaf Din and Raza Khan and the case had been running for the last seven years in regular court.
After the effective mediation of the friends of the court and local elders, the parties agreed to the terms and condition set by the mediators and submitted in the court.
The mobile court decide the case in no time after the mediators presented the report from all the parties in which they have agreed to resolve the cases on the terms and conditions set by the mediators.
Talking to The News, District and Sessions Judge (DSJ) Peshawar Shaiber Khan said it was great achievements of the mobile court to decide those cases within hours.
Besides, he said the mobile court also decided 31 cases of the residents within two and a half hours at their doorsteps, while such cases may take one or two years time in regular courts.
The DSJ said that during the trial of 37 cases, the locals also submitted 40 cases on the spot in the mobile court. However, he said the mobile court could not hear the fresh cases as the rival parties were not present and would be decided in the next visit of the court to the area soon.
During his briefing to the media persons, he said the Mobile Court would visit all the rural areas and outskirts of the city and there was no security problem to the court.About schedule of the cases, he said a backup cell was established in the Peshawar Judicial Complex where the cases of different areas of the city are being assembled.
He said when 30 to 40 cases of an area are assembled in the backup cell of the Mobile Court, then it travels to that specific area to decide the cases. Director general of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Judicial Academy was also present on the occasion.The Mobile Court had decided 29 cases during the first visit to Hayatabad, a posh area of the city, on August 27.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-7-203211-Mobile-court-decides-years-long-cases-w
The special green coach comprising several portions, including a small courtroom, judges chamber, drivers cabin, and litigants waiting section left the premises of the Peshawar Judicial Complex and reached the Agricultural Institute in Tarnab Farm area for deciding the cases of the people at their doorsteps.
Civil Judge-cum-Judicial Magistrate Fazal-e-Wadood decided 31 out of 37 cases. Out of the 31 cases, eight were of civil nature, including land and property disputes and 23 criminal cases.
Within an hour, the mobile court decided two complicated cases of land disputes, which had been running in the regular courts for the past 10 and seven years and claimed several lives from both sides.
Friends of the court, including Muhammad Ashfaq, Wajid Hussain and Sikandar Khan along with the local elders first mediated between the rival groups Sahar Gul and Badam Gul, the brothers who had land dispute and their case was running over the past 10 years in the regular court.
They also mediated in another case of land dispute, in which three persons had been murdered between the parties of Sharaf Din and Raza Khan and the case had been running for the last seven years in regular court.
After the effective mediation of the friends of the court and local elders, the parties agreed to the terms and condition set by the mediators and submitted in the court.
The mobile court decide the case in no time after the mediators presented the report from all the parties in which they have agreed to resolve the cases on the terms and conditions set by the mediators.
Talking to The News, District and Sessions Judge (DSJ) Peshawar Shaiber Khan said it was great achievements of the mobile court to decide those cases within hours.
Besides, he said the mobile court also decided 31 cases of the residents within two and a half hours at their doorsteps, while such cases may take one or two years time in regular courts.
The DSJ said that during the trial of 37 cases, the locals also submitted 40 cases on the spot in the mobile court. However, he said the mobile court could not hear the fresh cases as the rival parties were not present and would be decided in the next visit of the court to the area soon.
During his briefing to the media persons, he said the Mobile Court would visit all the rural areas and outskirts of the city and there was no security problem to the court.About schedule of the cases, he said a backup cell was established in the Peshawar Judicial Complex where the cases of different areas of the city are being assembled.
He said when 30 to 40 cases of an area are assembled in the backup cell of the Mobile Court, then it travels to that specific area to decide the cases. Director general of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Judicial Academy was also present on the occasion.The Mobile Court had decided 29 cases during the first visit to Hayatabad, a posh area of the city, on August 27.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-7-203211-Mobile-court-decides-years-long-cases-w
