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LAHORE: The additional district and sessions’ judges who hear murder cases filed across the city’s police stations have each been directed to restrict themselves to hearing bail petitions filed in cases registered with just one police station of the city.
Earlier, each of the 13 ADSJs that look after murder trials were required to hear bail petitions in cases registered with three police stations of the city.
The police stations whose bail petitions will no longer be taken up by the 13 ADSJs following District and Sessions Judge Tariq Iftikhar Ahmed’s directive will be transferred to other judges.
Several lawyers lauded the directive on Sunday and said that it would help the judges focus on murder trials and dispose of cases pending hearings for a long time. Advocate Ghulam Mujtaba Chaudhary said that earlier judges would spend most of their work day in hearing bail applications and were hardly left with any time for murder trials. He said with the responsibility for bail petitions from just one police station, judges could focus on murder trials and cases pending hearings for a long time.
On Lahore High Court directives about disposal of cases pending hearings from 1990 to 2014, judicial officers at the district and sessions courts have been compiling case details for several months now. LHC Chief Justice Malik Manzoor A Malik had visited the court premises and monitored the work on March 15.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 4th, 2015.
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