Corruption rife in courts, says registrar
‘There should be zero tolerance for corruption in judiciary’.
LAHORE:
Judges in Punjab get far more perks and privileges than officials in any other civil department, so there should be zero tolerance of corruption in the judiciary, said the Lahore High Court Registrar Sohail Nasir on Tuesday.
He said corruption was rampant in every nook and corner of the country and the judiciary was no exception, but the Lahore High Court, under the guidance of Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, was fighting the menace.
The registrar said 18 judges of the district courts and 267 of their subordinates had been penalised over the last year for corruption offences. One sessions judge was compulsorily retired while two additional district and sessions judges (ADSJs) and two civil judges had been shown the door.
A sessions judge, an ADSJ and seven civil judges had been given minor penalties like stoppage of their annual increment. Eighty-nine officials of the district courts in Punjab were recommended for removal and 57 were sacked after scrutiny of the charges.
A total of 210 officials of the district judiciary were given minor penalties.
He said inquiries were underway against five sessions judges, 11 ADSJs, four senior civil judges and 13 civil judges.
Nasir said that each LHC judge had been assigned a district judiciary or two to monitor.
“The judicial officers are held responsible for the misdoings of their subordinates and strict disciplinary action is taken against the delinquents,” he said. “Corruption has eroded the very fabric of society, therefore it should be the prime duty of the public, as well as the learned members of the bar, to ... curb this problem.”
He said litigants should follow the proscribed procedure in submitting their complaints with evidence, ID card, affidavit, contact number and mailing address attached, without which no complaint could be entertained.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 6th, 2011.
Judges in Punjab get far more perks and privileges than officials in any other civil department, so there should be zero tolerance of corruption in the judiciary, said the Lahore High Court Registrar Sohail Nasir on Tuesday.
He said corruption was rampant in every nook and corner of the country and the judiciary was no exception, but the Lahore High Court, under the guidance of Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, was fighting the menace.
The registrar said 18 judges of the district courts and 267 of their subordinates had been penalised over the last year for corruption offences. One sessions judge was compulsorily retired while two additional district and sessions judges (ADSJs) and two civil judges had been shown the door.
A sessions judge, an ADSJ and seven civil judges had been given minor penalties like stoppage of their annual increment. Eighty-nine officials of the district courts in Punjab were recommended for removal and 57 were sacked after scrutiny of the charges.
A total of 210 officials of the district judiciary were given minor penalties.
He said inquiries were underway against five sessions judges, 11 ADSJs, four senior civil judges and 13 civil judges.
Nasir said that each LHC judge had been assigned a district judiciary or two to monitor.
“The judicial officers are held responsible for the misdoings of their subordinates and strict disciplinary action is taken against the delinquents,” he said. “Corruption has eroded the very fabric of society, therefore it should be the prime duty of the public, as well as the learned members of the bar, to ... curb this problem.”
He said litigants should follow the proscribed procedure in submitting their complaints with evidence, ID card, affidavit, contact number and mailing address attached, without which no complaint could be entertained.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 6th, 2011.