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LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khosa has emphasised that verdicts of the court of law should not smack of ‘jaundiced intent’ as the Constitution provides equal rights to all citizens.
“No specific gender should remain deprived. Article 10 of the Constitution gives the right of fair trial to every citizen and it is our basic obligation to dispense justice to everyone,” the CJP said on Saturday.
He was addressing the concluding ceremony of a second three-day workshop on gender based violence laws held in Punjab Judicial Academy in collaboration with Asian Development Bank. He said gender based violence courts is one of the important steps they have taken for the protection of rights of people.
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He said the credit of fair speedy trials goes to judges, lawyers, police officials and prosecutors. Shedding light on number of trials concluded in 96 days, he said there are 10,600 murder and anti-narcotics trials which have been concluded across the country through criminal model courts.
“These are the same courts which achieved the said target. They were once blamed for delays. These are the same lawyers who were blamed, in the past, for lingering cases. Nothing is impossible if there is a devotion to do something,” he said.
The CJP said the first step the judiciary took was against forged statements. “False witnesses who gave statements before judiciary are now facing cases. False witnesses will not be tolerated.”
He said the second step was about capacity building of the judges. And third step was about reforms in police sector, adding that constructive measures are being taken in this regard.
The CJP revealed that there is an 11 per cent decrease in new cases filed in district courts while there is 20 per cent reduction in cases that land in superior courts because of new measures. He said the next step is to constitute ‘police assessment committees’ consisting of retired session judges and lawyers.
The CJP said every court is being connected with a research centre where artificial intelligence technology will be used to provide full assistance to judges in handing in decisions. The loopholes in judgments could be controlled through this system and the judges will also be careful while giving decisions.
“Artificial intelligence will be a revolutionary step in our judicial system owing to which the cases will be written down within hours rather than days or in minutes rather than hours,” he said.
Supreme Court judge Mansoor Ali Shah said gender based violence is a horrible aspect of our society. "We have studied this aspect in detail with the collaboration of the Asian Development Bank."
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He said the journey which started from a district and a court now has spread across all the districts of the country. Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Shamim Khan said it is need of the hour to make collective efforts to check gender based violence.
He said Islamic basic rights and laws have a special position in all the laws and rights of the world. He lauded the services of the Punjab Judicial Academy for holding such a good workshop and thanked Asian Development Bank for their collaboration.
Certificates were also distributed among the participants of the workshop.
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