Judge Fazal Wadood delivered verdicts, while the process was supervised by district and sessions judge Shaibar Khan. PHOTO: REUTERS
PESHAWAR:
On the directives of Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, the first mobile court of the country decided a total of 42 cases, including 11 civil and 31 criminal cases, through trained mediators in Daudzai, Charsadda Road on Saturday.
Judge Fazal Wadood delivered the verdicts, while the process was supervised by district and sessions judge Shaibar Khan.
On Thursday, the court decided 33 cases of both criminal and civil nature in Tarnab, on the outskirts of Peshawar. Out of the 37 cases referred to the mobile court, Judge Fazal Wadood settled 33 with the help of mediators. The court also decided two old land disputes, which have claimed four lives over the years.
The mobile court was inaugurated on July 27 with financial support from the United Nations Development Programme. The project cost Rs15 million, and the PHC plans to start one in each district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Meanwhile, an anti-corruption court awarded five years imprisonment and a fine of Rs50,000 to education department’s project director for Swat, in a corruption case involving provision of equipment to various primary schools. Project director Bakht Akbar was accused of embezzling Rs901,100 during his tenure, and the court also ordered recovery of the misappropriated amount.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2013.
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Impressed after reading about speedy justice :)
BUT disappointed after reading the sentence "The mobile court was inaugurated on July 27 with financial support from the United Nations Development Programme", how come we expect IK and his party to be free from international aid...... i guess when PML-N people started abusing IK over his campaign to stop NATO containers, i was thinking a -ve propaganda which is actually coming out to be true....... don't know how many other projects have been commenced with International aid in KPK :(
The ideal is speedy, transparently impartial, universal application of law to all without exception, under due process, without fear or favour to any group or individual. Speedy is a good start, lets hope transparency and universality will follow with due process.
way to go PTI.....IK haters will be higly disssapointed today
thank god at last ET has publish something informative. these mobile courts of kpk are 100 times better then those Metrobuse of lahore because these mobile courts will travel to whole kpk not stick to one city
hmm mm "justice on wheels" good idea in a country like pakistan where justice is UNDER the wheels
Good initiave