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In the name of Allah, the most Merciful, the most Beneficent

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Umar Ata Bandial Chief Justice, Lahore High Court.

Hon’ble Chief Justice administered oath to the newly appointed

Governor of the Punjab, Ch. Muhammad Sarwar

Illuminated Building of Lahore High Court, Lahore

CONTENTS

FOREWORD 1

CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW OF LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE 1.1 History of High Court ……………………………………………………..... 13 1.2 Jurisdiction & Powers of High Court …………………………….…......... 23 1.2.1 Original Jurisdiction ……………………………………………... 24 1.2.2 Appellate Jurisdiction …………………………………………… 24 1.2.3 General …………………………………………………………… 24 1.2.4 Other Courts ……..………………………………………………. 25 1.3 Composition of the Hon’ble Judges ………………………………………. 27 1.4 Hon’ble Administration Committee ……………………………………….. 31

CHAPTER 2: HIGH COURT – JUDICIAL ACTIVITY 2.1 High Court- Judicial Activity ……………………………………………….. 37 2.2 Institution, Disposal & Pendency at Principal Seat and its Benches….. 38 2.3 Consolidated Statement showing Institution, Disposal, Transfer &

Pendency of Cases ………………………………………………………... 39

2.4 Institution of Cases at Principal Seat and Benches …………………...... 40 2.5 Disposal of Cases at Principal Seat and Benches …………………....... 41 2.6 Pendency of Cases at Principal Seat and Benches ……………………. 42 2.7 Categories of Judicial Cases under which Institution of Fresh Cases is

made …………………………………………………………………………. 43

2.8 Judicial Wing ………………………………………………………………... 45 2.8.1 Copy Branch …………………………………………...………… 46 2.8.2 Judicial and Miscellaneous Branch ……………………….…… 47 2.8.3 Scanning Section ………………………………………….…….. 48 2.9 Punjab Sub-Ordinate Judiciary Service Tribunal ……………………….. 49

CHAPTER 3: DISTRICT JUDICIARY – ORGANIZATIONAL GLANCE 3.1 Sanctioned Strength of Judicial Officers …………………………………. 53 3.2 District & Sessions Judges/Senior Civil Judges ………………………… 53

CHAPTER 4: DISTRICT JUDICIARY - JUDICIAL ACTIVITY 4.1 Consolidated Statement showing Pendency, Institution, and Disposal

of cases in the Subordinate Courts ………………………………………. 57

4.2 Category-Wise Statement showing Institution, Disposal and Balance in the Sessions Courts ……………………………………………………..

58

4.3 Consolidated Category-Wise Civil & Criminal Statement showing previous Pendency, Institution, Disposal and Balance in the Civil Courts …………………..........................................................................

68

4.4 Pendency, Institution and Disposal of Cases in Banking Courts………. 85 4.5 Pendency, Institution and Disposal of Cases in Anti-Terrorism

Courts.... 86

4.6 Pendency, Institution and Disposal of Cases in Accountability Courts... 87 4.7 Pendency, Institution and Disposal of Cases in Drug Courts. …………. 88

4.8 Pendency, Institution and Disposal of Cases in Labour Courts. ………. 88 4.9 Pendency, Institution and Disposal of Cases in Anti-Corruption Courts. 89 4.10 Pendency, Institution and Disposal of Cases in Consumer Courts. … 90 4.11 Pendency, Institution and Disposal of Cases in Special Courts

(Central). …………………………………………………………………….. 90

4.12 Pendency, Institution and Disposal of Cases in CNS Courts………… 91 4.13 Institution, Disposal & Pendency of applications for the Custody of

Rescued Children in the Child Protection Court, Lahore……………….. 91

4.14 Category-Wise Pendency, Disposal and Institution of cases in Environmental Protection Tribunal…….………...………………………...

92

4.15 Category-Wise Pendency, Disposal and Institution of Cases in LDA Tribunal. ……………………………………………………………………

92

CHAPTER 5: HIERARCHY AND MANAGEMENT 5.1 Organizational Chart…………………………………………..……………. 97 5.2 Administration and Management of Lahore High Court…………...…… 99

CHAPTER 6: PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS WINGS 6.1 Member Inspection Team Wing…………………………………..……….. 107 6.2 Complaint Cell………………………………………………………..……… 112 6.3 Human Rights Cell ………………………………………………….…….. 114 6.4 Finance Wing……………………………………………………..........…… 115 6.4.1. Budget Branch……………………………………………............ 116 6.4.2 Accounts Branch …………………………..…………………….. 120 6.4.3 Bill Branch ………………………………..……………….………. 123 6.4.4 Receipt Branch …………………………………………………… 124 6.4.5 Purchase Branch ……………………….………………………… 126 6.4.6 Audit and Accounts Cell ………………….……………………… 127 6.4.7 Treasury……………………………………………………………. 128 6.5 Legislation Wing ……………………………..……………………………... 129 6.6 Library ……………………………………………………………………….. 134 6.7 Planning and Development Wing ………………………………………… 137 6.7.1 Planning and Development Branch…………………………….. 138 6.7.2 Building Branch………………………….………………………... 143 6.8 Transport Branch………………………………….………………………… 158 6.9 Information Technology Wing ……………………………………………... 160 6.9.1 Software Applications and Data Base Development………..... 160 6.9.2 Network/Hardware Section ……………………………………… 164 6.10 Establishment Wing …………………………..……………………………. 167 6.10.1 Gazette Branch-1 ………………………………………………… 168 6.10.2 Gazette Branch-II ………………………….…………………….. 170 6.10.3 Staff Branch ………………………………………………………. 172 6.11 Judicial Officers’ Establishment Wing ……………………………………. 177 6.11.1 Confidential Branch-I ………………………………….…………. 178 6.11.2 Confidential Branch-II ……………………….…………………… 182 6.11.3 Judicial Officers’ Branch-I (JOB-I) ……………………………… 184 6.11.4 Judicial Officers’ Branch-II (JOB-II) ……………………………. 186 6.12 General & Services Wing …………………………………………………. 188

6.12.1 General Branch …………………………………………………... 189 6.12.2 General Issue Section …………………………………………… 191 6.12.3 Resident Branch …………………………………….……………. 192 6.12.4 Protocol Branch …………………………………….……………. 193 6.12.5 Lower Court Establishment Branch …………………….……… 195 6.12.6 Security Branch ……………………………………….………….. 196

CHAPTER 7: INQUIRIES, RESEARCH / NATIONAL JUDICIAL POLICY CELL AND RESEARCH CENTER

7.1 Inquiries, Research/National Judicial Policy……………………………… 203 7.2 National Judicial Policy Cell …………………….…………………………. 207 7.3 NJP Implementation Cell ………………………………………….……..... 210 7.4 Research Centre…………………………………………………………..... 211

CHAPTER 8: INSTRUCTIONS TO DISTRICT JUDICIARY 217

CHAPTER 9: IMPORTANT NOTIFICATIONS, CIRCULARS AND OFFICE ORDERS

227

CHAPTER 10: HEAD NOTES OF IMPORTANT JUDGMENTS 235

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FOREWORD

(IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MOST COMPASSIONATE, THE MOST MERCIFUL)

Monitoring and Assessment is the latest technique and concept being

adopted by the leading organizations all over the world to keep a hawk-

eye on their pace and growth and professional skills/performance of

their personnel. This is high time that High Court must also resort to

such ways & means and modern methodologies to monitor and assess

performance of this august institution, which would be instrumental in

taking self-accountability measures and enable people at the helm of

affairs to have before them a comparative progress graph so as to

determine whether the institution is striding in the right direction or not.

This Annual report is a solemn and meticulous attempt to give an explicit

account of the progress, performance and achievement of this Court

and District Judiciary as also of the salient events and major activities

carried out during the year 2013.

Justice is an attribute of Allah and judges are the lucky and selected

people who have been bestowed with the onerous responsibility of

resolving the disputes of the aggrieved ones. Justice by everyone in

every sphere of life is the fundamental key to success and prosperity of

a nation. All the segments of society must function in a manner as to

strengthen the democratic system and promote the ends of justice in the

larger interest of the people.

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Impartial Judiciary is necessary for the freedom of every one. The

Judges and the Judicial Officers must as far as possible, be made

impartial from the executive in performing their duties to ensure that

liberties and rights of every one are protected against the tyrannical

encroachment of executive. Judge should be a role model in the society.

Integrity, conduct and sweet temperament are hallmarks of a judge.

People of this Country repose great confidence in the ability and

integrity of the judiciary to redress their grievances and grant relief to

them. They have very high and righteous expectations of the judiciary to

settle their disputes, restore their rights/entitlements and maintain peace

in society by dispensation of fear free, fair and in-expensive justice.

In my routine meeting with my brother and sister judges and members of

the district judiciary, I always stressed the judges to deliver

comprehensive judgments without fear or favour so that the dignity and

credibility of courts be enhanced with help of such judgments. The

judges of superior courts and the judges of district judiciary are all

members of one community and our mission is to serve the people with

dispensation of justice. We all are answerable to the Court of Allah

Almighty above us. I always advised them to develop a mechanism of

self-correction in order to become reactive, responsive and dynamic

justice. I assure them that the High Court would provide every possible

support in terms of encouragement, capacity building and provision of

state of the art equipment in the form of computer and other gadgets. It

is now up to the judges to deliver justice wherever they are and deliver it

in a manner that the aggrieved party gets the relief, which is due.

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District Judiciary has risen to the challenges and is making concerted

efforts to clear the backlog of old cases filed before 2008 and almost all

of the districts have zero pendency of old cases.

An important event of the year 2013 was the holding of General

Elections. Given acrimony and polarization in the country, it was an

onerous, challenging and delicate task. But the Judiciary of the

Province acquitted itself well and succeeded in ensuring fair, free,

peaceful and transparent elections. No eyebrow was raised from any

quarter and there was general acceptability of the results of the

elections.

This year, the Urgent Cell of this Court has been refurbished and state

of the art facilities under one roof have been provided for the litigant

public and lawyers. Instead of visiting various offices, now people can

approach Lahore High Court Urgent Cell and will be able to file their

cases at an easy accessible place adjacent to copy branch in the façade

of ministerial block in comfortable and conclusive atmosphere.

Role of bar is imperative in the disposal of cases as judges could not

deliver judgments without assistance of bar and quality of decisions also

revolved round the quality of arguments advanced by the lawyers.

Bench and Bar are two important elements of the same institution. Both

of them have to make concerted efforts towards achieving the cherished

goals which they symbolize. The legal community has rendered

invaluable services towards the promotion of democracy, independence

of judiciary and protection of human rights. It is our collective

responsibility to strengthen the national institutions to ensure rule of

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law in the country. Rule of law demands sacrifices and we have

to act as a united and disciplined nation for promoting and consolidating

all institutions. Judges should deliver detailed and qualitative judgments

that nobody should point a finger against them. Lawyers played a

distinguished role for upholding the rule of law in the country.

Lawyers have to play their role to end intolerance and biases in society,

the two ills could only be eliminated by accepting the supremacy of law.

I advised the judges to excel in the legal knowledge and expertise to

command respect from the legal fraternity and society. I held regular

meetings with representatives of various bars of the Province and tried

my level best to resolve their genuine problems. I urged the lawyers to

avoid strikes and protests so that the litigants could be provided justice

timely. I also lauded the efforts of Punjab Bar Council with the

assistance of NADRA for issuance of smart cards to the advocates

which would help eliminate fake lawyers who were a stigma on the face

of the Bar.

Despite acute shortage of Judges in the Lahore High Court, during the

relevant period, my borhter & sister Judges took extra-burden on their

shoulders and held courts from dawn to dusk not only to provide relief to

the litigants but to clear the back-log as well as fresh institution and this

daunting challenge was accepted in keeping with the spirit of National

Judicial Policy which improved performance of courts in leaps & bounds.

I am sanguine that the year 2013 has seen this Court striding forward in

its mission to dispense justice to everyone. We have honestly

endeavoured to maintain a high standard of judicial administration and

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improved our court system. I am confident that we can build on the

success of past year and achieve a new level of excellence in 2014. We

must be determined to uphold the supremacy of the Constitution and

Rule of Law without any discrimination on the ground of race, religion,

caste and sex, maintain our constitutional values judicial ethics and

devote ourselves to the service of justice to all.

Finally, I would like to thank my learned brother and sister Judges &

entire court staff who have worked with dedication and devotion to

achieve the goals of this Court in an effective way and have kept the flag

of justice at high mast. We pledge to continue our journey with vigorous

spirit and passion in maintaining this Court as a center of judicial

excellence.

May Allah Almighty guide and help us in the discharge of our arduous

duties (Ameen).

(UMAR ATA BANDIAL ) CHIEF JUSTICE

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Hon’ble Chief Justice with Hon’ble Judges

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Hon’ble Chief Justice & Hon’ble Judges with the members of Lahore High Court Bar Association

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Chapter No: 1

Over-view of Lahore High Court, Lahore

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1.1. HISTORY OF HIGH COURT.

The history of the High Court at Lahore is not only a proud record

of the judiciary over the last hundred and thirty eight years in this

part of the world but also a saga of the march of social, political,

economic and constitutional events, which brought about

cataclysmic changes in the history of the sub-continent. Prior to

1830, conditions prevailing in the Principalities, ruled by

independent Chieftains in the Punjab, were deplorable. Crime

was rampant and had become a hereditary profession. Neither

there were any judicial courts nor written laws nor any

established authorities to maintain or enforce them. The cases

were decided by Chieftains according to their own caprices.

For the first time in 1849, a Board of Administration was

constituted and Punjab was divided into Divisions, Divisions into

Districts and Districts into Tehsils. The Divisions were under the

charge of Commissioners, Districts were controlled by Deputy

Commissioners and Tehsils were supervised by Assistant and

Extra Assistant Commissioners. By 1864, the necessity of

expanding judicial machinery was keenly felt. A bill for the

formation of the Chief Court of the Punjab was introduced on

16th February, 1866 and the Chief Court Act-IV of 1866 was

promulgated by the Governor General. On 17.02.1866, two

Judges were appointed and in the same year, a Civil Procedure

Code was made applicable to the courts. In 1884, the following

classes of courts, subordinate to the Chief Court were

constituted:-

The Divisional Court.

The Court of the District Judge.

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Court of the Subordinate Judge.

The Court of Munsif.

In 1919, the Chief Court was elevated to the status of a High

Court by Letters Patent and in pursuance of a notification dated

1st April, 1919.

The Government of India Act, 1935 made certain radical changes

in the Constitution and powers of the various High Courts in the

British India. The new Act provided that Judges would hold office

during good behaviour whereas, previously they held office

during his Majesty’s pleasure. Instead of the ceiling of twenty

Judges fixed by the previous Act, the new Act left it to his Majesty

to fix the number of Judges separately for each High Court

depending upon their requirements. All acting appointments of

Judges were left in the hands of the Governor-General and

powers of the Local Governments were withdrawn. Under the old

system, the Chief Justice had always been a Barrister Judge,

however, the new Act removed this barrier and opened the Chief

Justice-ship to Civilian Judges as well. The old Act fixed a

definite proportion of Civilian and Barrister Judges in the

composition of the High Court which was removed by the new

Act. The new Act also fixed the 60 years age limit for the High

Court Judges which did not exist in the old Act but which was

otherwise enforced by the terms of the Judges’ appointment. By

virtue of the Government of India (High Court Judges) Order,

1937, maximum number of Judges for the several High Courts in

India was fixed. In each case the number so stated was exclusive

of the Chief Justice but included all additional judges. The

maximum number of Judges fixed for the Lahore High Court was

15. The said Order also prescribed the scale of pay and rights as

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to leave, pension and gratuity etc. of the Judges serving in the

different High Courts in India including the Lahore High Court.

After partition of India in 1947 into two dominions viz. Pakistan

and India, the High Court’s (Punjab) Order, 1947 created a new

High Court of Judicature for the territory of East Punjab (India)

and the High Court (Lahore) Order, 1947 preserved continuance

of the Lahore High Court.

On the establishment of West Pakistan in 1955, the High Court of

West Pakistan (Establishment) Order XIX of 1955 converted the

Lahore High Court into the High Court of West Pakistan with

permanent Benches at Karachi and Peshawar and Circuit

Benches at Quetta and Bahawalpur.

The 1956 & 1962 Constitutions of Pakistan continued the High

Court of West Pakistan with certain changes. The year 1967,

February 17th to be exact, saw the centenary celebrations of the

High Court of West Pakistan. A significant event of this occasion

was a ceremony wherein the Judges and Lawyers of the Court

rededicated themselves to the glory of God and service of people

through the following re-dedication citation:-

“In the name of Allah the Most Merciful, the All-knowing, the Omnipotent, the Grantor of all Prayers, the Omnipresent, the Greatest Judge and Final Arbiter.

In special memory to those who have made the supreme sacrifice to preserve this Temple inviolate and who are no longer today with us but by whose efforts this House still holds itself pure and clean in body and spirit and in gratitude to all who in life and death have sought to preserve it as a noble instrument of Thy Will and Command; we dedicate this High Court of West Pakistan and ourselves to Thee and beg of Thee for Thy Mercy and Blessing.

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Almighty God, we pray that this House of Justice by Thy grace be endued with Thy light and spirit. Pour down Thy glory on this Court and consecrate it with Thy wisdom and love. Exalt it in spirit and in strength that it may be Thy instrument to fulfill Thine Divine Commands. Give us, Thine servants, strength, wisdom and truth. Enlighten us from ignorance and inspire us with Thy light. Grant us grace truly and impartially to administer justice and to uphold truth to the glory of Thy Name. And of Thy infinite mercy so direct and dispose our hearts that we may fulfill Thy will and fall into no error of judgment. Grant us humility. Have mercy upon us and give us grace so to Judge within the limits set by Thee.

Grant our prayer and bestow upon us the fortitude and freedom to do justice according to law and uphold the Constitution of Pakistan without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.”

With this sublime vow the West Pakistan High Court (now Lahore

High Court) assumed the unique responsibility to play a leading

role in the country for zealously and actively upholding the

supremacy of law and justice.

On the dissolution of the Province of West Pakistan, the High

Court (Establishment) Order, P.O. 8 of 1970 replaced the West

Pakistan Court with Peshawar High Court for N.W.F.P. Lahore

High Court for Punjab and Sindh, Baluchistan High Court for

Sindh and Balochistan. The Constitution of Pakistan 1973

continued the Lahore High Court.

Subsequently, by virtue of an amendment in the High Court

(Establishment) Order P.O.8 of 1970, promulgated in 1981, the

Lahore High Court has its Principal Seat at Lahore and

permanent Benches at Rawalpindi, Multan and Bahawalpur. It

supervises and controls 36 courts of District and Sessions

Judges, 291 courts of Additional District and Sessions Judges,

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791 courts of Senior Civil Judges/Civil Judges-cum-Judicial

Magistrates, 57 courts of Special Judicial Magistrates besides,

Judges Small Causes Courts, Special Judicial Magistrates,

Special Courts viz. Anti-Corruption, Drugs, Narcotics, Anti-

Terrorism, Labour, Accountability, Customs, Anti-Smuggling,

Environment, Banking, LDA Tribunal and Service Tribunal etc.

Initially, permanent strength of Judges of the High Court at

Lahore was limited to seven but this kept on increasing

from time to time. Finally, it was enhanced to 60 in the year

2008-09.

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High Court View of Eastern Side in 1920

High Court Viewed from Western Side in 1925

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The Lahore High Court, Lahore (Without the two Corner Blocks) Prior to 1923.

The Lahore High Court, Lahore (South Eastern Block).

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1.2. JURISDICTION AND POWERS OF HIGH COURT:

The jurisdiction of Lahore High Court covers almost all civil and

criminal matters cognizable under various laws. It has also

jurisdiction to hear and determine any matter instituted under the

Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1973 or involving

its interpretation or of any other law.

The Division benches also hear appeals against the decisions of

single benches. It is empowered to make rules to regulate its

practice, procedure and of the subordinate Courts and exercises

supervisory jurisdiction over the subordinate judiciary. Apart from

revisional and review powers it may take, of its own, notice of any

event or eventuality.

The Hon’ble Chief Justice is assisted in his lordship’s

administrative responsibilities by the Hon’ble Judges/members of

the Administration Committee and learned Registrar of the Court.

His lordship may delegate any of his administrative powers to the

members/Hon’ble Judges of the Committee. Similarly, the

learned Registrar may also exercise powers on behalf of Chief

Justice, if so delegated, in relation to administrative affairs of the

Court. The Hon’ble Chief Justice assigns different tasks to the

Hon’ble members of the Administration Committee and the

learned Registrar in terms of the High Court Rules & Orders. In

addition, the Hon’ble Chief Justice may constitute Committees to

deal with certain particular issues.

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1.2.1 ORIGINAL JURISDICTION:

The High Court, under the Constitution, has original jurisdiction to

make an order:-

Directing a person within the territorial jurisdiction of the Court to refrain from doing anything he is not permitted to do by law or to do anything he is required to do by law;

Declaring that any act done by a person without lawful authority is of no legal effect;

Directing that a person in custody be brought before it, so that the Court may satisfy itself that he is not being held unlawfully;

Giving such directions to any person or authority, for the enforcement of any of the fundamental rights conferred by the Constitution. Besides the original jurisdiction conferred by or under various laws, a High Court has the power to withdraw any civil or criminal case from a trial Court and try it itself.

1.2.2. APPELLATE JURISDICTION:

The High Court has appellate jurisdiction against the judgments,

decisions, decrees and sentences passed by the civil and

criminal Courts.

1.2.3. GENERAL:

The High Court has the power to make rules regulating its

practice and procedure and of Courts subordinate to it. The High

Court supervises and controls all Courts subordinate to it and any

decision of a High Court is binding on all Courts subordinate to it.

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1.2.4 OTHER COURTS:

CIVIL. In every district of a Province, there is a Court of the

District Judges, which is the principal Court of original jurisdiction

in civil matters. Added to this are the Courts of Additional District

Judges. Besides the Court of District Judge, there are Courts of

Senior Civil Judges and Civil Judges who work under the

supervision and control of the District Judge, and all matters of

civil nature originate in the Courts of these Judges. The District

Judge may, however, transfer any matter from any Additional

District Judge, Senior Civil Judge and Civil Judge. Appeals

against the judgments and decrees passed by the Civil Judges,

in cases where the value of the suit does not exceed the

specified amount, lie to the District Judge.

CRIMINAL. In every district, there is a Court of Sessions Judge

and Courts of Magistrates. Criminal cases punishable with death

and imprisonment for life as well as cases arising out of the

enforcement of laws relating to Hudood are tried by Sessions

Judges. The Court of a Sessions Judge is competent to pass any

sentence authorized by law. Offences not punishable with death

are tried by Magistrates. Among the Magistrates there are

Magistrates of 1st Class, Class-II and Class-III. An appeal

against the sentence passed by a Sessions Judge lies to the

High Court and against the sentence passed by a Magistrate to

the Sessions Judge if the term of sentence is up to four years,

otherwise to the High Court.

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SPECIAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS. To deal with

specific types of cases, Special Courts and Tribunals are

constituted. These are: Special Courts for Trial of Offences in

Banks; Special Courts for Recovery of Bank Loans; Special

Courts under the Customs Act; Special Courts Anti-Terrorism

and Control of Narcotic Substances; Courts of Special Judges

Anti-Corruption; Drug Courts; Labour Courts; Insurance Appellate

Tribunal; Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and Service Tribunals.

Appeals from the Special Courts lie to the High Courts, except in

case of Labour Courts and Special Traffic Courts, which have

separate forums of appeal.

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1.3. COMPOSITION OF THE HON’BLE JUDGES:

The composition of the Hon’ble Judges as on 31-12-2013 is

mentioned here under:-

1 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Umar Ata Bandial

(Chief Justice)

2 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sh. Najam ul Hasan

3 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Kh. Imtiaz Ahmad

4 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik

5 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sardar Tariq Masood

6 Hon’ble Mr. Justice I jaz ul Ahsan

7 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah

8 Hon’ble Mr. Justice I jaz Ahmad

9 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Khan

10 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shahid Hameed Dar

11 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Muhammad Yawar Al i

12 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Muhammad Anwaarul Haq

13 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sardar Muhammad Shamim Khan

14 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh

15 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Muhammad Farrukh Irfan Khan

16 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan

17 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi

18 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu

19 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi

20 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Abdus Sattar Asghar

21 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed If t ikhar Hussain Shah

22 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Mehmood Maqbool Bajwa

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23 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Muhammad Kazim Raza Shamsi

24 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan

25 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatt i

26 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan

27 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Abdul Sami Khan

28 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ibad -ur-Rehman Lodhi

29 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shujaat Al i Khan

30 Hon’ble Mrs. Just ice Ayesha A. Malik

31 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shahid Waheed

32 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ali Baqar Najaf i

33 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shoaib Saeed

34 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Atir Mahmood

35 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan

36 Hon’ble Just ice Miss Aalia Neelum

37 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shezada Mazhar

38 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Abid Aziz Sheikh

39 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Mahmood Ahmad Bhatt i

40 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Muhammad Tariq Abbasi

41 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Arshad Mahmood Tabassum

42 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ch. Muhammad Masood Jahangir

43 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sadaqat Al i Khan

44 Hon’ble Mr. Justice M. Sohail Iqbal Bhatt i

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Hon'ble Chief Justice, Hon'ble Judges & Worthy Registrar presenting bouquet and souvenir to Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ch.

Muhammad Younis on his retirement.

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1.4. HON’BLE ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE:

(As on 31-12-2013)

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Umar Ata Bandial Chief Justice- (Chairman)

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sh. Najam-ul-Hasan Hon’ble Mr. Justice Khawaja Imtiaz Ahmad

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sardar Tariq Masood

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah

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Hon'ble Chief Justice and Hon'ble Judges presenting souvenir and bouquet to Hon’ble Mr. Justice Nasir Saeed

Sheikh and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Rauf Ahmad Sheikh on their retirement.

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Chapter No: 2

High Court Judicial Activity

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2.1. HIGH COURT- JUDICIAL ACTIVITY:

The Hon’ble Chief Justice and Judges of this Court are

constitutionally entrusted with the most arduous but sacred duty

of not only deciding fates of the people but also shoulder the

gigantic and sensitive responsibility of keeping a check on the

overall social, political and judicial system of the country upon

which the whole super-structure of a society as well as country

stands erected. Therefore, very existence of this august

institution and the judicial system owes a lot to the perspiring and

relentless performance of Hon’ble Judges who have to hold

courts from dawn to dusk to provide justice to this nation. The

statements tabulated in the pages to follow are thumping proof of

their tireless endeavours for maintaining peace & tranquility in the

society and putting on the right path the socio-political system of

the country.

However, it may not be out of place to mention here that

assistance to the Hon’ble Courts, of paralegal staff working in

number of judicial branches viz. Writ, Criminal, Civil &

Commercial, is part & parcel and an inseparable ingredient of

justice dispensation system.

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2.2. INSTITUTION, DISPOSAL & PENDENCY OF CASES AT PRINCIPAL SEAT AND ITS BENCHES DURING THE YEAR 2013:

BENCHES PENDENCY

AS ON 01-01 -2013

INSTITUTION 01-01 -2013

TO 31-12 -2013

TOTAL

DISPOSAL 01-01 -2013

TO 31-12 -2013

B AL ANCE AS ON

31-12 -2013

Principal Seat

87169 77337 164506 58335 106171

Bahawalpur Bench

14192 16208 30400 15458 14942

Multan Bench

41017 30480 71497 33488 38009

Rawalpindi Bench

13449 9523 22972 9057 13915

TOTAL 155827 133548 289375 116338 173037

BALANCE ON 31.12.2013 AT PRINCIPAL SEAT AND ITS BENCHES:

Sr.# Cases Category Pendency

1 CIVIL(All Categories) 44986

2 CRIMINAL 37223

3 CONSTITUTIONAL 81711

4 COMMERCIAL 9117

GRAND TOTAL 173037

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2.3. STATEMENT SHOWING INSTITUTION, DISPOSAL AND PENDENCY OF CASES AT PRINCIPAL SEAT AND ITS BENCHES W.E.F. 01-01-2013 TO 31-12-2013:

C ATEGORY OF C ASES

Pending As On 01-01 -13

Inst i tu t ion From

01-01 -13 To

31-12 -13

TOTAL

Disposal From

01-01 -13 To

31-12 -13

Balance As On 31-12 -13

L .P .A/ I .C. A 1967 1820 3787 1199 2588

R.F. A 6373 2105 8478 954 7524

R.S.A 1763 305 2068 161 1907

F .A.O 2580 1124 3704 881 2823

S .A.O 208 47 255 33 222

C.R. 28388 5837 34225 4520 29705

W ri t Cases 60790 64226 125016 53192 71824

W.P. (Sett ) 643 106 749 66 683

I .T. A. | W .T.A 1638 63 1701 61 1640

S .A. 31 155 186 3 183

R. A. 308 230 538 135 403

T. A. 351 977 1328 886 442

P .T.R/ I . T.R 3814 417 4231 45 4186

Cu s t om Ap p e a l 1172 176 1348 180 1168

C.O 282 54 336 36 300

E .F .A 670 155 825 107 718

C.O.S(B) 813 161 974 79 895

EX.A. (B) 159 39 198 12 186

P .L .A. (B) 744 66 810 300 510

C.M . (B) 33 1 34 9 25

P .S .L .A 1227 434 1661 293 1368

Murder Ref . 3721 542 4263 1128 3135

Cr l . Appeal 20146 4603 24749 4312 20437

Cr l . Rev. 4975 2074 7049 1684 5365

Cr iminalM isc. 4779 40675 45454 39150 6304

Cr l . M isc. (Q) 36 41 77 42 35

Cr l . Org. 5575 4900 10475 4090 6385

C.S.R 203 34 237 43 194

Commercia l Appeal

100 7 107 20 87

Pet i t ion Cooperat i ve

54 25 79 24 55

S .T. A | S .T.R 1122 183 1305 91 1214

Cross Object ion

19 10 29 3 26

ESA 4 1 5 2 3

CTR 148 0 148 2 146

ETR 78 10 88 0 88

Press Appeal 1 1 1

OBJECTION C ASE

566 1900 2466 2436 30

Tax Ref 347 44 391 158 233

TOTAL 155827 133548 289375 116338 173037

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2.4. INSTITUTION OF CASES AT PRINCIPAL SEAT AND BENCHES:

C ATE G OR Y O F C AS E S

P R I NC IP AL S E AT

B AH AW AL P U R BE N CH

M UL T AN BE N CH

R AW AL P IND I BE N CH

T O T AL INS T I TU T IO N

L .P . A / I . C . A 1175 104 385 156 1820 R. F . A 1355 176 258 316 2105 R.S . A 195 32 59 19 305 F . A .O 731 72 194 127 1124 S . A . O 35 2 10 47 C.R . 3406 752 904 775 5837 W r i t C as e s 37371 7697 15934 3224 64226 W .P . ( S e t t ) 106 106 I . T . A . | W . T . A 1 62 63 S . A . 155 155 R. A . 157 21 33 19 230 T . A . 593 108 221 55 977 P . T . R / I . T .R 395 6 16 417 Cu s t om Ap p e a l / RE F

143 27 6 176

C. O 47 7 54 E . F . A 101 15 22 17 155 C. O. S ( B ) 144 9 6 2 161 E X . A . (B ) 35 4 39 P . L . A . ( B ) 65 1 66 C.M . ( B ) 1 1 P .S . L . A 252 63 76 43 434 M ur d er R e f . 451 66 25 542 Cr l . Ap p e a l 2768 520 649 666 4603 Cr l . Re v . 1172 217 430 255 2074 Cr im i n a l M is c .

23428 4953 8960 3334 40675

Cr l . M is c . (Q )

28 13 41

Cr l . Or g . 2789 939 979 193 4900 C.S .R 34 34 Co m m er c i a l Ap p e a l

7 7

P e t i t i o n Co o p er a t i ve

25 25

S . T . A | S . T .R 151 6 20 6 183 Cr o s s O bj e c t i o n

10 10

E S A 1 1 CT R 0 0 E T R 10 10 P r e s s Ap p e a l

0 1 1

OB JE C TI ON C AS E

0 445 1279 176 1900

T a x Re f 0 44 44

TOTAL 77337 16208 30480 9523 133548

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2.5. DISPOSAL OF CASES AT PRINCIPAL SEAT AND BENCHES:




M UL T AN BE N CH


T O T AL D IS P OS AL

L.P.A/ I .C. A 566 123 341 169 1199

R.F. A 440 173 247 94 954

R.S.A 101 27 22 11 161

F .A.O 414 73 308 86 881

S .A.O 17 4 6 6 33

C.R. 2128 730 1105 557 4520

W ri t Cases 25003 7386 17519 3284 53192

W.P. (Sett ) 62 - 4 66 I . T . A . | W . T . A 0 - 7 54 61

S .A. 3 - - - 3

R. A. 69 17 33 16 135

T. A. 533 117 177 59 886

P .T.R/ I . T.R 41 - - 4 45

Custom Appeal /REF

154 - 24 2 180

C.O 34 1 1 36

E .F .A 67 6 18 16 107

C.O.S(B) 75 - 4 - 79

EX.A. (B) 11 1 - - 12

P .L .A. (B) 300 - - - 300

C.M . (B) 9 - - - 9

P .S .L .A 207 38 8 40 293

Murder Ref . 932 26 105 65 1128

Cr l . Appeal 2397 378 932 605 4312

Cr l . Rev. 789 197 478 220 1684

Cr iminal M isc.

22056 4919 8804 3371 39150

Cr l . M is c . ( Q ) 29 - - 13 42

Cr l . Org. 1722 769 1405 194 4090

C.S.R 43 - - - 43

Commercia l Appeal

3 - - 17 20


24 - - - 24

S . T . A | S . T .R 5 - 84 2 91

Cross Object ion

3 - - - 3

ESA 2 - - - 2

CTR 2 - - - 2

ETR 0 - - - 0 P r e s s Ap p e a l - 1 - - 1

OBJECTION C ASE

94 472 1699 171 2436

Tax Ref - - 158 - 158

TOTAL 58335 15458 33488 9057 116338

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2.6. PENDENCY OF CASES AT PRINCIPAL SEAT AND BENCHES:




M UL T AN BE N CH


T O T AL P E ND E N C Y

L.P.A/ I .C. A 1795 199 419 175 2588

R.F. A 3850 798 1575 1301 7524

R.S.A 1073 156 630 48 1907

F .A.O 1623 239 600 361 2823

S .A.O 97 12 92 21 222

C.R. 13785 3747 7930 4243 29705

W ri t Cases 44697 6554 17147 3426 71824

W.P. (Sett ) 604 - 79 - 683 I . T . A . | W . T . A 1528 1 2 109 1640

S .A. 183 - - - 183

R. A. 244 33 98 28 403

T. A. 328 10 86 18 442

P .T.R/ I . T.R 4152 6 28 4186

Custom Appeal

1121 - 41 6 1168

C.O 283 - - 17 300

E .F .A 641 21 22 34 718

C.O.S(B) 804 18 70 3 895

EX.A. (B) 174 3 6 3 186

P .L .A. (B) 509 - - 1 510

C.M . (B) 25 - - - 25

P .S .L .A 886 76 320 86 1368

Murder Ref . 2022 234 518 361 3135

Cr l . Appeal 12037 1406 4648 2346 20437

Cr l . Rev. 3099 380 1296 590 5365

Cr iminal M isc.

4552 364 1042 346 6304

Cr l . M is c . ( Q ) 32 - - 3 35

Cr l . Org. 4349 658 1097 281 6385

C.S.R 194 - - 194

Commercia l Appeal

38 - - 49 87


55 - - - 55

S . T . A | S . T .R 1134 10 50 20 1214

Cross Object ion

20 - - 6 26

ESA 3 - - - 3

CTR 146 - - - 146

ETR 88 - - - 88

P r e s s Ap p e a l - - - - -

Object ion case

- 17 8 5 30

Tax Ref - - 233 - 233

TOTAL 106171 14942 38009 13915 173037

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2.7. CATEGORIES OF JUDICIAL CASES UNDER WHICH INSTITUTION OF FRESH CASES IS MADE:

Abbreviations of Categories

Full Description

L.P.A./I.C.A. Letter Patent Appeal/Intra Court Appeal

R.F.A. Regular First Appeal

R.S.A. Regular Second Appeal

F.A.O. First Appeal against Order

S.A.O. Second Appeal against Order

C.R. Civil Revision

W.P. Writ Petition

W.P. (Sett.) Writ Petition (Settlement)

I.T.A. Income Tax Appeal

S.A. Service Appeal

R.A. Review Application

T.A. Transfer Application

T.A Tax Appeal

P.T.R. Petition for Tax Reference

T.R. Tax Reference

C. A. Custom Appeal

Ex-Petition Execution Petition

C.O. Civil Original

E.F.A. Execution First Appeal

C. Ref. Civil Reference

C.O.S.(B) Civil Original Suit (Banking)

Ex.A.(B) Execution Application (Banking)

P.L.A.(B) Petition for Leave to Appeal and Defend (Banking)

C.A.(B) Custom Appeal (Banking)

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Abbreviations of Categories

Full Description

C.M.(B) Civil Miscellaneous (Banking)

P.S.L.A. Petition for Special Leave to Appeal

M.R. Murder Reference

Crl. Appeal Criminal Appeal

Crl. Revision Criminal Revision

Crl. Misc. Criminal Miscellaneous

Crl. Misc.(Q) Criminal Miscellaneous (Quashment)

Crl. Original Criminal Original

Report Report

E.P. Election Petition

Obj. Case Objection Case

Cross Objection Cross Objection

Petition Co-op. Petition Co-operative

Commercial Appeal Commercial Appeal

S.T.A. Sales Tax Appeal

C.O.S. Civil Original Suit

Labour Appeal Labour Appeal

E.S.A. Execution Second Appeal

Ex. Application Execution Application

Banking Matter Banking Matter

D. No. Diary Number

Ex. Appeal Execution Appeal

Crl. Ref. Criminal Reference

C.T.R. Civil Tax Reference

Civil Suit Civil Suit

State Bank Petition State Bank Petition

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2.8. JUDICIAL WING:

Judicial wing holds central importance in the working mechanism

of this Court. The wing under discussion is responsible for all

matters relating to the administration of justice, such as,

courtroom proceedings, issuance of notices/summons, fixation of

cases, issuance of certified copies, order sheets, judicial record,

replies and para-wise comments in Civil, Criminal, Writ,

Commercial and Tax Cases, printing of paper books of murder

cases, etc. The wing is supervised by the Addl. Registrar

(Judicial) alongwith Deputy Registrars and Assistant Registrars.

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2.8.1. COPY BRANCH:

Copying agency holds immense importance in the working

mechanism of judicial transaction for litigant public and lawyer’s

community. Without the support of this organ of judicial system,

the litigants and lawyer’s community cannot get consequential

benefit or relief of judicial orders/judgments. The issuance of

attested copy in this behalf must be prompt and timely so that

justice done to any aggrieved is not spoiled. Taking this important

aspect into consideration, copy branch over the year, has

appreciably improved its performance in keeping with the desire

and directions of Hon’ble Chief Justice and Judges. Some

services extended to the litigants at the copy counter have been

switched to computerization mode which step has proved

instrumental in providing speedy facilitation to the public and

lawyers.

The performance of the branch under discussion during the year

2013 is as under:-

T

The performance of the last two years for the sake of comparison

is depicted below:-

1 Total No. of copy peti t ions (C.Ps)

processed 1,19,846

1 Total No. of copy peti t ions (C.Ps) processed during the year 2011.

1 ,05,860

2 Total No. of copy peti t ions (C.Ps) processed during the year 2012.

1 ,22,040

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2.8.2. JUDICIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS BRANCH:

The efficiency of Judicial and Miscellaneous branch during the

year 2013 is depicted below: -

DISPATCH SECTION:

ASSIGNMENTS DISPOSALS

No. of letters issued in Criminal, Writ, Commercial and Civil Branches 96,705

Movement of cases to Writ Branch 70,200

No. of LCRs. moved to Civil, Writ and Commercial Branch

1,029

No. of LCRs. moved in Criminal cases 2,055

Grand Total 1,69,989

HEAD RECEIPT CELL:

ASSIGNMENTS DISPOSALS

Criminal Record & Criminal LCR 268 & 3713

Civil (All Categories)

R.S.A. + T.A. 257

R.F.A +E.F.A 852

F.A.O. + S.A.O 165

C.R.LCR 111

Writ LCR 108

Supreme Court Writ matters. 84

Supreme Court Civil Revisions matters 58

Total Diary (Replies and Comments) 26349

Supreme court Letters & Criminal Jail Appeals 4708

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2.8.3. SCANNING SECTION:

Scanning Section of the Lahore High Court is an important

agency which deals with composing and printing of paper books

of murder references/criminal appeals, which are pre-requisites

for fixation of these cases. As contemplated by High Court Rules

& Orders, input of this section is quite significant as murder

references can only be decided after printing of paper books.

This section renders the services of Urdu writing,

examination/proof reading, re-writing or composing (in case of

correction), page marking, index, printing, gatta, binding and

book checking to prepare paper books.

The performance of this section during the year 2013 is as

under:-

Category of cases Disposals

No. of Cases processed for Preparation of Paper Books

1039

No. of Cases processed for Compromise 61

Grand Total 1100

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2.9. PUNJAB SUB-ORDINATE JUDICIARY SERVICE TRIBUNAL:

Punjab Sub-ordinate Judiciary Service Tribunal is an appellate

forum having exclusive jurisdiction in respect of matters relating

to the terms and conditions of service, efficiency and disciplinary

matters of the District Judiciary which functions under the

administrative control of the Lahore High Court. Its’ composition

at the closure of the year 2013 was as under:-

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (Chairman)

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Abdus Sattar Asghar (Member)

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatt i (Member)

Needless to say that in order to facilitate the tribunal and to cater

cases fixation/institution, Service Tribunal Branch stands

established in this Court under the supervision of an Assistant

Registrar headed by a Deputy Registrar (Tribunals), who also

acts as Registrar of the said Tribunal.

The performance of this section during the year 2013 is as

under:-

Category of cases

Previous Pendency

Institution Disposal Balance

Service Appeals f i led

in 2013 186 30 Nil 216

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Chapter No: 3

District Judiciary Organization at a Glance

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3.1. WORKING STRENGTH OF JUDICIAL OFFICERS:

Category of the Judicial Officers.

Working strength in the

field.

Working strength on ex-

cadre posts. Total

District & Sessions Judges

36 80 116

Additional District &Sessions Judges

288 11 299

Senior Civil Judges-cum-Magistrates+ Judge Small Causes Court

36+1=37 02 39

Civil Judges-Cum- Magistrates

816 2 818

3.2. DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGES/SENIOR CIVIL JUDGES POSTED IN THE FIELD (AS ON 31-12-2013):

District District & Sessions

Judge Senior Civil Judge

Attock Mr. Muhammad Iqbal Ms. Shabana Risalat

Bahawalnagar Syed Pervaiz Ali Shah Mr. Kabir Ahmad

Bahawalpur Mr. Muhammad Rashid Qamar

Mr. Mumtaz Ahmad

Bhakkar Mr. Ghaffar Jalil Mr. Abdul Razzaq

Chakwal Mr. Tahir Sabir Mr. Liaqat Ali Ranjha

Chiniot Mr. Muhammad Azhar Ch.

Mr. Anjum Mumtaz Malik

D.G.Khan Mr. Abdul Mustafa Nadeem

Mr. Muhammad Zubair

Faisalabad Ch. Khalik-uz-Zaman Mr. Iftikhar Ahmad

Gujranwala Tariq Iftikhar Ahmad Syed Azhar Ali Jafri

Gujrat Mr. Khalid Naveed Dar Mr. Ishfaq Ahmad

Hafizabad Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad Tarar

Mr. Muhammad Altaf

Jhang Mr. Moqurab Khan Javed Iqbal Bosal

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District District & Sessions

Judge Senior Civil Judge

Jhelum Mr. Mujahid Mustaqim Ahmad

Mr. Hamid Mahmood Khan

Kasur Mr. Bahadar Ali Khan Mr. Abid Ali

Khanewal Mr. Ahmad Nawaz Ranjha

Mr. Muhammad Yasir Nadeem Razzaq

Khushab Mr. Irfan Ahmad Saeed Mr. Shafqat Ullah Khan

Lahore Syed Hamid Hussain Shah

Mr.Muhammad Sher Abbas, SCJ Mr. Khalid Saeed Wattoo, Sr.C.J/JSCC.

Layyah Mr. Muhammad Rafiq Syed Nasir Ali Bokhari

Lodhran Ch. Abdul Rashid Abid Malik Abid Hussain

M.B. Din Mr. Sohail Ikram Mr. Ahmad Kamran

Mianwali Mr. Ameer Muhammad Khan

Mr. Fayyaz Ahmad Zaheer

Multan Mr. Sarwar Saleem Ullah Mr. Muhammad Saeed Rafiq

Muzaffargarh Mr. Muhammad Khalid Nawaz

Mr. Muhammad Kashif

Nankana Mian Muhammad Anwar Nazir

Mr. Mansoor Ahmad Qureshi

Narowal Mr. Muhammad Abdul Nasir

Mr. Atiq-ur-Rehman

Okara Mr. Safdar Saleem Shahid

Syed Zaighum Abbas Rizvi

Pakpattan Mr. Shakeel Ahmad Mr. Ijaz Ali

R.Y.Khan Mr. Mahboob Qadir Shah Mr. Zulfiqar Ahmad Naeem

Rajanpur Ch. Zafar Iqbal Naeem Dr. Jamil Ahmad Shahzad

Rawalpindi Mr. Abdul Sattar Mr. Muhammad Rizwan Arif

Sahiwal Mr. Muhammad Hafeez Ullah Khan

Malik Shafiq Ahmad

Sargodha Ch. Humayun Imtiaz Mr. Muhamad Ajmal Khan Raja

Sheikhupura Mr. Nazir Ahmad Gujana Mr. Mubbashar Nadeem Khan

Sialkot Mr. Shahid Rafiq Mr. Irfan Ahmad Sheikh

T.T. Singh Ch. Mushtaq Ahmad Mr. Iftikhar-un-Nabi

Vehari Mr. Abid Hussain Qureshi Mr. Imtiaz Nadeem

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Chapter No: 4

District Judiciary Judicial Activity

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4.1. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT SHOWING PENDENCY INSTITUTION & DISPOSAL OF CASES IN SUBORDINATE COURTS IN THE PUNJAB:

Name of the Court

Pendenc y of a l l

categor ies of cases

as on 01.01.2013

Inst i tu t ion from

01.01.2013 to

31.12.2013

Disposal f rom

01.01.2013 to

31.12.2013

Balance as on

31.12.2013

D&SJJ/ AD&SJs 129798 749679 716350 163127

Senior /Civi l Judges/ Judicial Magistrates.

894721 1444168 1394382 944507

Banking Courts.

32813 18526 22559 28780

AT A Courts. 437 1159 1216 380

Accountabi l i ty Courts.

147 114 156 105

Drug Courts. 2075 3556 3536 2095

Labour Courts. 6236 5399 4892 6743

Ant i -Corrupt ion Courts.

3398 2917 2203 4112

Consumer Courts

2372 5619 5186 2805

Special Courts (Central ) .

4172 5032 4404 4800

CNS Courts. 264 283 321 226

Chi ld Protect ion Courts.

349 905 936 318

Punjab Environmental Protect ion Tr ibunal .

1785 1191 1059 1917

LDA Tr ibunal . 71 18 01 88

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4.2. CATEGORY-WISE STATEMENT SHOWING INSTITUTION, DISPOSAL AND BALANCE AS ON 31.12.2013 IN SESSIONS COURTS IN PUNJAB:

Name of Districts

Murder Cases (1) Sessions/STA Cases (2)

Pre. Inst. Disp. Bal. Pre. Inst. Disp. Bal.

Attock 130 163 146 147 131 84 155 60

Bahawalnagar 194 301 260 235 190 351 348 193

Bahawalpur 284 393 362 315 256 440 420 276

Bhakkar 93 224 191 126 75 253 220 108

Chakwal 73 115 122 66 43 112 100 55

Chiniot 312 221 235 298 170 247 227 190

D.G.Khan 124 188 110 202 112 288 175 225

Faisalabad 1103 862 626 1339 583 640 488 735

Gujranwala 376 684 503 557 261 455 378 338

Gujrat 483 408 407 484 112 204 164 152

Hafizabad 237 194 243 188 162 199 225 136

Jhang 388 290 278 400 260 360 327 293

Jhelum 68 154 139 83 34 88 97 25

Kasur 451 776 754 473 253 673 654 272

Khanewal 245 351 300 296 221 593 503 311

Khushab 91 96 75 112 34 60 56 38

Lahore 1548 1610 1735 1423 416 1735 1064 1087

Layyah 67 75 68 74 99 164 151 112

Lodhran 82 183 168 97 183 526 486 223

M. B. Din 243 214 191 266 114 143 154 103

Mianwali 304 295 261 338 57 99 95 61

Multan 344 269 277 336 315 409 386 338

Muzaffargarh 251 431 327 355 319 635 529 425

Nankana Sahib 287 283 315 255 159 233 270 122

Narowal 109 162 98 173 50 125 110 65

Okara 576 411 334 653 421 501 443 479

Pakpattan 260 377 361 276 295 403 410 288

R. Y. Khan 272 214 198 288 267 409 325 351

Rajanpur 200 149 150 199 132 168 146 154

Rawalpindi 363 504 422 445 169 344 320 193

Sahiwal 416 393 368 441 249 451 428 272

Sargodha 470 440 386 524 276 412 401 287

Sheikhupura 561 854 830 585 129 401 397 133

Sialkot 329 486 476 339 140 390 367 163

T.T.Singh 159 250 192 217 168 262 223 207

Vehari 240 246 205 281 221 258 217 262

Grand Total 11733 13266 12113 12886 7076 13115 11459 8732

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Name of Districts

Illegal Cases (3) Hadood Cases (4)


Attock 23 40 46 17 0 0 0 0

Bahawalnagar 16 17 20 13 0 1 1 0

Bahawalpur 64 59 66 57 1 0 1 0

Bhakkar 22 25 27 20 0 1 1 0

Chakwal 27 31 23 35 0 1 1 0

Chiniot 5 4 2 7 1 1 2 0

D.G.Khan 27 44 22 49 1 0 1 0

Faisalabad 99 109 102 106 1 2 0 3

Gujranwala 67 60 47 80 0 0 0 0

Gujrat 26 26 28 24 1 1 2 0

Hafizabad 11 10 11 10 2 2 3 1

Jhang 16 33 31 18 1 0 1 0

Jhelum 13 17 22 8 0 0 0 0

Kasur 35 67 57 45 47 0 46 1

Khanewal 18 25 26 17 2 0 0 2

Khushab 11 13 13 11 0 0 0 0

Lahore 358 411 331 438 579 139 546 172

Layyah 37 51 50 38 0 0 0 0

Lodhran 24 35 30 29 0 2 2 0

M. B. Din 13 27 22 18 0 0 0 0

Mianwali 16 23 30 9 0 1 0 1

Multan 86 112 117 81 6 8 13 1

Muzaffargarh 92 215 172 135 0 0 0 0

Nankana Sahib 18 12 23 7 0 0 0 0

Narowal 19 16 27 8 0 0 0 0

Okara 82 85 74 93 1 0 1 0

Pakpattan 21 23 20 24 1 0 0 1

R. Y. Khan 94 57 79 72 1 0 1 0

Rajanpur 30 30 32 28 1 1 2 0

Rawalpindi 67 112 116 63 1 1 2 0

Sahiwal 29 53 42 40 0 0 0 0

Sargodha 45 44 53 36 1 0 1 0

Sheikhupura 55 80 82 53 0 0 0 0

Sialkot 48 85 78 55 1 0 1 0

T.T.Singh 20 27 25 22 0 0 0 0

Vehari 40 56 51 45 0 1 0 1

Grand Total 1674 2134 1997 1811 649 162 628 183

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Name of Districts

Narcotics Cases (5) Habeas Cases (6)


Attock 211 958 848 321 1 191 192 0

Bahawalnagar 68 157 165 60 6 538 522 22

Bahawalpur 93 224 175 142 3 649 639 13

Bhakkar 32 247 231 48 3 164 166 1

Chakwal 40 204 203 41 8 198 204 2

Chiniot 222 320 306 236 7 248 253 2

D.G.Khan 66 139 110 95 4 361 361 4

Faisalabad 861 1203 1037 1027 10 1321 1314 17

Gujranwala 532 1556 1408 680 7 232 236 3

Gujrat 138 482 401 219 1 372 372 1

Hafizabad 209 411 442 178 0 241 239 2

Jhang 202 547 463 286 3 514 514 3

Jhelum 55 312 291 76 2 149 151 0

Kasur 336 1140 1107 369 1 376 370 7

Khanewal 57 460 402 115 21 541 547 15

Khushab 49 131 101 79 5 214 213 6

Lahore 3392 4596 5040 2948 22 1760 1756 26

Layyah 16 107 79 44 11 448 456 3

Lodhran 43 109 123 29 9 397 392 14

M. B. Din 61 123 142 42 0 95 95 0

Mianwali 135 498 464 169 0 159 157 2

Multan 351 1003 937 417 40 1319 1307 52

Muzaffargarh 81 516 376 221 20 1201 1191 30

Nankana Sahib 221 742 706 257 0 138 138 0

Narowal 34 137 131 40 4 244 247 1

Okara 105 204 185 124 20 743 761 2

Pakpattan 60 160 142 78 8 577 577 8

R. Y. Khan 209 419 226 402 21 1032 1035 18

Rajanpur 43 91 95 39 7 424 417 14

Rawalpindi 511 1971 1871 611 13 566 571 8

Sahiwal 45 438 351 132 2 628 624 6

Sargodha 289 819 785 323 2 751 744 9

Sheikhupura 245 1382 1239 388 13 243 236 20

Sialkot 428 1553 1407 574 0 445 445 0

T.T.Singh 69 231 204 96 5 402 393 14

Vehari 64 351 200 215 15 723 727 11

Grand Total 9573 23941 22393 11121 294 18604 18562 336

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Name of Districts

Cases for Registration Cases (7)

Harassment Cases (8)


Attock 38 1272 1268 42 0 0 0 0

Bahawalnagar 178 7144 7004 318 36 1386 1382 40

Bahawalpur 220 7300 7008 512 24 1578 1593 9

Bhakkar 91 641 669 63 59 890 876 73

Chakwal 30 1326 1326 30 0 56 55 1

Chiniot 151 3629 3661 119 4 625 615 14

D.G.Khan 245 3495 3436 304 109 606 643 72

Faisalabad 1113 16744 15778 2079 34 2803 2620 217

Gujranwala 755 13166 12494 1427 0 1 1 0

Gujrat 63 2699 2573 189 0 97 94 3

Hafizabad 115 1903 1944 74 14 198 209 3

Jhang 213 4387 4314 286 29 773 791 11

Jhelum 21 1062 1043 40 0 35 33 2

Kasur 234 6293 6137 390 5 351 342 14

Khanewal 472 5098 5082 488 62 1750 1706 106

Khushab 90 1564 1538 116 15 324 319 20

Lahore 1676 35353 33199 3830 11 3757 3719 49

Layyah 110 3268 3123 255 46 732 755 23

Lodhran 147 2987 2879 255 55 799 837 17

M. B. Din 74 2811 2739 146 7 162 167 2

Mianwali 64 1459 1474 49 0 66 66 0

Multan 408 8267 8183 492 114 3814 3858 70

Muzaffargarh 867 7025 6785 1107 71 2239 2163 147

Nankana Sahib 106 2258 2165 199 7 312 305 14

Narowal 42 1934 1855 121 2 92 85 9

Okara 803 9263 8459 1607 43 1557 1560 40

Pakpattan 595 4211 4343 463 20 1109 1112 17

R. Y. Khan 881 11867 12142 606 12 2180 2127 65

Rajanpur 100 1821 1747 174 51 932 897 86

Rawalpindi 240 4101 4090 251 0 49 49 0

Sahiwal 506 5871 5828 549 41 1092 1104 29

Sargodha 269 4649 4549 369 21 507 517 11

Sheikhupura 395 8094 8205 284 9 635 625 19

Sialkot 365 6736 6692 409 0 230 222 8

T.T.Singh 296 3367 3116 547 16 574 570 20

Vehari 797 6559 6556 800 60 1509 1513 56

Grand Total 12770 209624 203404 18990 977 33820 33530 1267

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Name of Districts

Civil Appeal (9) Civil Revision (10)


Attock 656 1254 888 1022 62 191 164 89

Bahawalnagar 964 2521 2201 1284 92 400 373 119

Bahawalpur 1623 2449 2176 1896 187 406 358 235

Bhakkar 795 1458 1288 965 121 256 245 132

Chakwal 1183 2141 1646 1678 114 293 269 138

Chiniot 586 1020 1006 600 60 165 155 70

D.G.Khan 723 551 403 871 119 118 150 87

Faisalabad 2465 2970 2255 3180 423 534 484 473

Gujranwala 1602 3002 2407 2197 247 612 484 375

Gujrat 1072 1736 1337 1471 101 261 194 168

Hafizabad 421 594 596 419 45 91 84 52

Jhang 884 1637 1264 1257 131 255 250 136

Jhelum 790 1031 808 1013 92 191 158 125

Kasur 1527 2545 2235 1837 296 643 639 300

Khanewal 722 1228 1008 942 123 298 209 212

Khushab 740 666 610 796 69 102 77 94

Lahore 4630 7164 5363 6431 1336 2261 1663 1934

Layyah 898 873 695 1076 118 183 142 159

Lodhran 689 1366 1064 991 101 232 215 118

M. B. Din 788 1013 1003 798 101 143 155 89

Mianwali 597 833 808 622 117 175 172 120

Multan 1864 3956 3150 2670 649 1349 1334 664

Muzaffargarh 1493 2245 1968 1770 204 532 348 388

Nankana Sahib 260 631 588 303 59 163 147 75

Narowal 507 963 678 792 45 160 124 81

Okara 1224 1364 1318 1270 321 319 321 319

Pakpattan 763 1030 973 820 111 155 152 114

R. Y. Khan 1647 1763 1461 1949 320 369 429 260

Rajanpur 305 591 446 450 20 78 69 29

Rawalpindi 4055 4288 4117 4226 359 794 709 444

Sahiwal 2011 2833 2406 2438 172 409 340 241

Sargodha 1393 3779 3088 2084 238 606 522 322

Sheikhupura 1077 2339 1715 1701 214 700 571 343

Sialkot 1822 2189 1554 2457 308 421 313 416

T.T.Singh 974 1186 1059 1101 129 219 160 188

Vehari 1803 2342 2041 2104 178 271 278 171

Grand Total 45553 69551 57623 57481 7382 14355 12457 9280

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Name of Districts

Criminal Appeal (11) Criminal Revision(12)


Attock 19 76 42 53 35 156 149 42

Bahawalnagar 72 187 179 80 43 297 284 56

Bahawalpur 29 55 40 44 61 229 209 81

Bhakkar 49 55 61 43 48 175 178 45

Chakwal 62 124 135 51 73 245 280 38

Chiniot 6 44 30 20 26 85 81 30

D.G.Khan 18 31 36 13 16 122 106 32

Faisalabad 95 154 115 134 143 445 385 203

Gujranwala 48 87 68 67 74 262 199 137

Gujrat 45 47 45 47 41 126 114 53

Hafizabad 40 19 47 12 25 92 105 12

Jhang 35 38 47 26 40 163 139 64

Jhelum 45 28 52 21 53 133 141 45

Kasur 17 81 56 42 55 280 271 64

Khanewal 35 48 41 42 73 304 274 103

Khushab 36 42 43 35 29 53 60 22

Lahore 100 256 136 220 670 1293 1192 771

Layyah 25 32 26 31 28 141 119 50

Lodhran 40 56 59 37 50 175 168 57

M. B. Din 17 28 28 17 61 143 162 42

Mianwali 44 150 97 97 104 263 251 116

Multan 13 59 50 22 102 336 352 86

Muzaffargarh 45 66 49 62 45 266 182 129

Nankana Sahib 22 64 44 42 15 95 94 16

Narowal 20 54 40 34 14 135 106 43

Okara 42 24 39 27 91 283 272 102

Pakpattan 25 55 60 20 38 164 146 56

R. Y. Khan 31 50 51 30 79 286 271 94

Rajanpur 8 76 62 22 10 106 90 26

Rawalpindi 72 157 136 93 103 406 345 164

Sahiwal 28 58 47 39 60 225 191 94

Sargodha 64 172 151 85 177 408 436 149

Sheikhupura 12 45 34 23 53 247 236 64

Sialkot 55 53 61 47 40 195 144 91

T.T.Singh 67 96 91 72 80 202 169 113

Vehari 62 62 72 52 85 192 216 61

Grand Total 1443 2729 2370 1802 2740 8728 8117 3351

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Name of Districts Original Suits(13) Election Petition(14)


Attock 36 33 25 44 0 0 0 0

Bahawalnagar 168 412 327 253 0 0 0 0

Bahawalpur 160 202 193 169 0 96 55 41

Bhakkar 120 203 185 138 0 0 0 0

Chakwal 52 59 52 59 0 0 0 0

Chiniot 52 107 82 77 0 0 0 0

D.G.Khan 94 77 59 112 0 1 1 0

Faisalabad 326 391 319 398 0 0 0 0

Gujranwala 126 184 125 185 1 0 1 0

Gujrat 43 49 41 51 0 0 0 0

Hafizabad 47 49 49 47 0 0 0 0

Jhang 262 311 286 287 0 161 113 48

Jhelum 22 33 25 30 0 0 0 0

Kasur 130 198 152 176 0 0 0 0

Khanewal 162 154 141 175 0 3 3 0

Khushab 31 26 32 25 0 0 0 0

Lahore 1293 1347 1068 1572 0 144 139 5

Layyah 108 185 141 152 0 0 0 0

Lodhran 69 114 111 72 0 0 0 0

M. B. Din 49 53 56 46 0 0 0 0

Mianwali 59 107 81 85 0 0 0 0

Multan 353 531 488 396 0 0 0 0

Muzaffargarh 140 216 184 172 0 140 140 0

Nankana Sahib 24 16 18 22 0 0 0 0

Narowal 12 19 13 18 0 0 0 0

Okara 172 219 180 211 0 0 0 0

Pakpattan 132 111 113 130 0 0 0 0

R. Y. Khan 188 217 157 248 0 0 0 0

Rajanpur 86 145 110 121 0 1 1 0

Rawalpindi 204 264 188 280 0 0 0 0

Sahiwal 130 279 206 203 0 0 0 0

Sargodha 128 200 171 157 0 10 10 0

Sheikhupura 68 40 40 68 0 0 0 0

Sialkot 97 98 66 129 0 3 3 0

T.T.Singh 86 148 96 138 0 0 0 0

Vehari 240 244 194 290 0 0 0 0

Grand Total 5469 7041 5774 6736 1 559 466 94

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Name of Districts

Bail Application(15) Labour Cases(16)


Attock 39 2016 1994 61 0 0 0 0

Bahawalnagar 198 8612 8458 352 0 0 0 0

Bahawalpur 455 8803 8754 504 0 0 0 0

Bhakkar 120 2741 2668 193 0 0 0 0

Chakwal 66 2266 2288 44 0 0 0 0

Chiniot 213 5356 5344 225 0 0 0 0

D.G.Khan 316 6687 6480 523 0 0 0 0

Faisalabad 950 22509 21466 1993 0 0 0 0

Gujranwala 691 11851 11465 1077 0 0 0 0

Gujrat 197 4676 4573 300 0 0 0 0

Hafizabad 175 3341 3400 116 0 0 0 0

Jhang 308 7879 7872 315 0 0 0 0

Jhelum 47 1882 1873 56 0 0 0 0

Kasur 284 13253 13095 442 0 0 0 0

Khanewal 533 8681 8601 613 0 0 0 0

Khushab 57 1522 1458 121 0 0 0 0

Lahore 2612 33042 32239 3415 0 0 0 0

Layyah 177 3030 3083 124 0 0 0 0

Lodhran 405 4886 5041 250 0 0 0 0

M. B. Din 79 3723 3622 180 0 0 0 0

Mianwali 113 3206 3215 104 0 0 0 0

Multan 1025 13883 14050 858 0 0 0 0

Muzaffargarh 646 13981 13282 1345 0 0 0 0

Nankana Sahib 256 6000 5963 293 0 0 0 0

Narowal 115 3828 3705 238 0 0 0 0

Okara 517 13436 13200 753 0 0 0 0

Pakpattan 371 7100 6986 485 0 0 0 0

R. Y. Khan 724 11869 12069 524 0 0 0 0

Rajanpur 283 6377 6052 608 0 0 0 0

Rawalpindi 393 8313 8361 345 0 0 0 0

Sahiwal 563 9100 8806 857 0 0 0 0

Sargodha 334 9457 9168 623 0 0 0 0

Sheikhupura 430 12095 11937 588 0 0 0 0

Sialkot 269 7823 7572 520 0 0 0 0

T.T.Singh 227 4460 4400 287 0 0 0 0

Vehari 608 9668 9253 1023 0 0 0 0

Grand Total 14796 297352 291793 20355 0 0 0 0

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Name of Districts

Execution Petition(17) Inquiry Cases(18)


Attock 1 11 5 7 2 9 7 4

Bahawalnagar 14 41 38 17 4 7 9 2

Bahawalpur 11 29 25 15 10 9 13 6

Bhakkar 10 34 38 6 8 14 17 5

Chakwal 9 13 15 7 8 6 6 8

Chiniot 8 8 9 7 1 4 2 3

D.G.Khan 14 19 18 15 0 9 5 4

Faisalabad 40 66 34 72 4 16 12 8

Gujranwala 21 21 17 25 4 5 7 2

Gujrat 11 10 7 14 5 3 7 1

Hafizabad 6 21 25 2 4 7 10 1

Jhang 22 30 28 24 1 12 10 3

Jhelum 4 2 1 5 12 47 52 7

Kasur 38 29 35 32 15 29 38 6

Khanewal 3 14 14 3 3 4 4 3

Khushab 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0

Lahore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Layyah 16 12 17 11 0 0 0 0

Lodhran 14 22 24 12 1 5 4 2

M. B. Din 4 12 11 5 2 13 11 4

Mianwali 2 14 14 2 0 13 10 3

Multan 30 60 61 29 29 16 24 21

Muzaffargarh 41 14 25 30 3 1 2 2

Nankana Sahib 4 3 5 2 4 1 0 5

Narowal 1 3 3 1 4 2 3 3

Okara 23 27 35 15 6 4 8 2

Pakpattan 11 17 23 5 1 4 3 2

R. Y. Khan 15 35 22 28 2 7 9 0

Rajanpur 6 16 14 8 0 1 1 0

Rawalpindi 15 13 14 14 7 8 7 8

Sahiwal 7 22 22 7 3 23 19 7

Sargodha 6 23 20 9 0 36 23 13

Sheikhupura 18 11 19 10 3 2 3 2

Sialkot 16 15 21 10 9 19 17 11

T.T.Singh 10 9 14 5 2 3 3 2

Vehari 8 3 7 4 2 1 3 0

Grand Total 459 679 680 458 159 341 350 150

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Name of Districts

Other Cases(19) Total of all Categories 1 to 19 (9)


Attock 8 3 8 09 8 31 6 1 1 46 7 7 26 3 6 76 0 1 97 0

Bahawalnagar 1 18 1 06 9 1 04 3 1 44 2 36 1 2 34 4 1 2 26 1 4 3 18 8

Bahawalpur 2 21 1 16 4 1 17 5 2 10 3 70 2 2 40 8 5 2 32 6 2 4 52 5

Bhakkar 7 9 5 80 5 91 6 8 1 72 5 7 96 1 7 65 2 2 03 4

Chakwal 6 5 3 94 4 27 3 2 1 85 3 7 58 4 7 15 2 2 28 5

Chiniot 7 5 3 26 3 51 5 0 1 89 9 1 24 1 0 1 23 6 1 1 94 8

D.G.Khan 1 76 5 47 6 70 5 3 2 16 4 1 32 8 3 1 27 8 6 2 66 1

Faisalabad 3 73 2 62 6 2 54 6 4 53 8 62 3 5 33 9 5 4 95 8 1 1 24 3 7

Gujranwala 1 04 9 00 8 35 1 69 4 91 6 3 30 7 8 3 06 7 5 7 31 9

Gujrat 5 3 4 45 4 31 6 7 2 39 2 1 16 4 2 1 07 9 0 3 24 4

Hafizabad 5 1 2 33 2 40 4 4 1 56 4 7 60 5 7 87 2 1 29 7

Jhang 1 60 1 18 0 1 15 2 1 88 2 95 5 1 85 7 0 1 78 8 0 3 64 5

Jhelum 3 7 3 28 2 90 7 5 1 29 5 5 49 2 5 17 6 1 61 1

Kasur 6 7 8 93 8 99 6 1 3 79 1 2 76 2 7 2 68 8 7 4 53 1

Khanewal 1 22 6 34 6 13 1 43 2 87 4 2 01 8 6 1 94 7 4 3 58 6

Khushab 5 0 2 39 2 42 4 7 1 30 7 5 05 3 4 83 8 1 52 2

Lahore 2 35 9 5 16 6 4 89 0 2 63 5 2 10 0 2 1 00 0 3 4 9 40 8 0 2 69 5 6

Layyah 5 3 1 92 1 87 5 8 1 80 9 9 49 3 9 09 2 2 21 0

Lodhran 5 0 3 80 3 57 7 3 1 96 2 1 22 7 4 1 19 6 0 2 27 6

M. B. Din 5 9 2 61 2 39 8 1 1 67 2 8 96 4 8 79 7 1 83 9

Mianwali 1 13 6 53 6 91 7 5 1 72 5 8 01 4 7 88 6 1 85 3

Multan 4 02 2 77 8 2 85 3 3 27 6 13 1 3 81 6 9 3 74 4 0 6 86 0

Muzaffargarh 1 92 6 90 5 56 3 26 4 51 0 3 04 1 3 2 82 7 9 6 64 4

Nankana Sahib 1 31 4 94 5 46 7 9 1 57 3 1 14 4 5 1 13 2 7 1 69 1

Narowal 7 6 6 07 5 46 1 37 1 05 4 8 48 1 7 77 1 1 76 4

Okara 1 08 6 41 5 25 2 24 4 55 5 2 90 8 1 2 77 1 5 5 92 1

Pakpattan 1 32 8 95 8 32 1 95 2 84 4 1 63 9 1 1 62 5 3 2 98 2

R. Y. Khan 2 27 1 00 0 9 43 2 84 4 99 0 3 17 7 4 3 15 4 5 5 21 9

Rajanpur 9 9 7 71 7 09 1 61 1 38 1 1 17 7 8 1 10 4 0 2 11 9

Rawalpindi 2 99 1 89 4 1 57 1 6 22 6 87 1 2 37 8 5 2 28 8 9 7 76 7

Sahiwal 1 89 7 28 7 28 1 89 4 45 1 2 26 0 3 2 15 1 0 5 54 4

Sargodha 2 60 8 41 8 98 2 03 3 97 3 2 31 5 4 2 19 2 3 5 20 4

Sheikhupura 9 9 1 02 0 9 99 1 20 3 38 1 2 81 8 8 2 71 6 8 4 40 1

Sialkot 1 53 8 11 7 73 1 91 4 08 0 2 15 5 2 2 02 1 2 5 42 0

T.T.Singh 8 6 4 50 4 40 9 6 2 39 4 1 18 8 6 1 11 5 5 3 12 5

Vehari 1 29 1 03 9 1 01 5 1 53 4 55 2 2 35 2 5 2 25 4 8 5 52 9

Grand Total 7050 33678 32634 8094 129798 749679 716350 163127

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4.3. CONSOLIDATED CATEGORY-WISE CIVIL & CRIMINAL STATEMENT SHOWING PREVIOUS PENDENCY, INSTITUTION, DISPOSAL AND BALANCE AS ON 31.12.2013 AT CIVIL COURTS IN THE PUNJAB:

Name of Districts

Civil Suits (1)

Previous pendency

Inst. Rec. Disp. Trans. Bal.

Attock 4776 4429 0 2937 1271 4997

Bahawalnagar 7753 9232 29 8110 1545 7359

Bahawalpur 11618 10419 2774 9858 2549 12404

Bhakkar 5846 6990 0 4870 2420 5546

Chakwal 4780 4609 0 3889 1135 4365

Chiniot 3982 3839 302 3860 340 3923

D.G.Khan 5145 4347 1062 3759 963 5832

Faisalabad 15288 18031 9578 14554 9504 18839

Gujranwala 9803 10356 1275 9133 1193 11108

Gujrat 6702 4283 1462 4352 1438 6657

Hafizabad 3048 3144 6 2828 346 3024

Jhang 9266 7928 4235 8171 3985 9273

Jhelum 3970 2800 194 2647 210 4107

Kasur 11157 10740 4947 11071 5019 10754

Khanewal 8215 6055 3013 7181 3111 6991

Khushab 3425 2792 0 2083 174 3960

Lahore 46852 40315 31214 41025 27890 49466

Layyah 3834 3684 1139 2959 1107 4591

Lodhran 3762 4348 78 3997 443 3748

M.B.Din 4382 4051 1499 3924 1490 4518

Mianwali 2414 3447 0 2506 567 2788

Multan 16819 16974 9140 15944 6748 20241

Muzaffargarh 7557 9245 0 7022 716 9064

Nankana Sahib 4677 4172 1710 3707 2458 4394

Narowal 4420 3433 2069 3276 2070 4576

Okara 9915 13221 0 7621 4576 10939

Pakpattan 6114 9225 0 4824 4514 6001

R.Y.Khan 10959 12994 0 9708 2830 11415

Rajanpur 2258 2273 310 2189 250 2402

Rawalpindi 14873 20057 644 17207 3555 14812

Sahiwal 8263 7193 6272 7372 6154 8202

Sargodha 8986 9929 3036 7843 3700 10408

Sheikhupura 9570 9011 4845 10367 3955 9104

Sialkot 10939 10330 4790 9529 4791 11739

T.T.Singh 5129 7396 0 4339 1865 6321

Vehari 10286 9234 2709 9707 2365 10157

Grand Total 306783 310526 98332 274369 117247 324025

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Name of Districts

Family Cases (2)

Previous pendency


Attock 1139 2208 0 1470 665 1212

Bahawalnagar 2060 5037 33 4211 320 2599

Bahawalpur 3201 7008 215 6485 180 3759

Bhakkar 778 1564 0 1764 17 561

Chakwal 881 2808 0 1791 659 1239

Chiniot 1151 2201 924 2170 868 1238

D.G.Khan 1038 2534 256 2233 355 1240

Faisalabad 5434 10787 2399 8784 2399 7437

Gujranwala 2727 5683 1218 5022 1249 3357

Gujrat 1869 3602 588 2998 547 2514

Hafizabad 445 1811 0 1615 12 629

Jhang 1875 3723 1102 3324 1091 2285

Jhelum 883 1546 14 1435 10 998

Kasur 1639 4244 632 3729 682 2104

Khanewal 2231 4396 52 4119 64 2496

Khushab 1017 1505 0 1360 61 1101

Lahore 10427 15375 3626 14300 5156 9972

Layyah 1196 2031 770 1955 760 1282

Lodhran 1287 3575 1 2673 744 1446

M.B.Din 1161 2457 149 2142 178 1447

Mianwali 638 1390 1 1001 105 923

Multan 5037 9336 2707 8612 2288 6180

Muzaffargarh 3087 6599 0 5891 228 3567

Nankana Sahib 935 1868 179 1635 457 890

Narowal 1086 1980 750 1719 745 1352

Okara 3051 6450 98 5113 758 3728

Pakpattan 1625 5601 5 3483 2058 1690

R.Y.Khan 2991 6648 0 6116 278 3245

Rajanpur 577 1747 35 1484 47 828

Rawalpindi 3923 8421 22 6182 1391 4793

Sahiwal 1549 4369 1953 4057 1951 1863

Sargodha 2552 5861 507 4780 502 3638

Sheikhupura 1951 4769 641 4832 539 1990

Sialkot 2096 4550 1165 4191 1070 2550

T.T.Singh 1108 2810 0 2313 194 1411

Vehari 2435 5047 916 4750 957 2691

Grand Total 77080 161541 20958 139739 29585 90255

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Name of Districts

Appl. For Succession (3)

Previous pendenc y

Inst . Rec. Disp. Trans. Bal .

Attock 59 517 0 509 16 51

Bahawalnagar 77 352 0 335 1 93

Bahawalpur 309 511 27 511 147 189

Bhakkar 18 150 2 142 0 28

Chakwal 89 591 0 568 17 95

Chiniot 43 160 3 165 0 41

D.G.Khan 46 295 0 285 0 56

Faisalabad 384 1547 161 1341 164 587

Gujranwala 104 934 11 839 12 198

Gujrat 190 881 0 879 6 186

Hafizabad 31 165 9 165 0 40

Jhang 151 457 0 401 41 166

Jhelum 163 541 1 613 0 92

Kasur 86 439 55 410 55 115

Khanewal 180 481 13 494 13 167

Khushab 51 304 0 275 15 65

Lahore 1388 3378 531 3187 487 1623

Layyah 38 151 0 149 2 38

Lodhran 52 149 3 138 0 66

M.B.Din 36 242 4 234 16 32

Mianwali 97 274 0 258 8 105

Multan 252 910 42 884 16 304

Muzaffargarh 78 362 0 335 0 105

Nankana Sahib 56 391 15 324 68 70

Narowal 106 318 23 361 31 55

Okara 95 572 0 471 22 174

Pakpattan 50 278 0 249 23 56

R.Y.Khan 184 579 0 630 24 109

Rajanpur 31 143 1 137 1 37

Rawalpindi 597 2063 1 2025 354 282

Sahiwal 87 392 29 353 75 80

Sargodha 117 845 51 759 81 173

Sheikhupura 168 629 16 544 99 170

Sialkot 184 1035 65 1018 98 168

T.T.Singh 98 423 0 371 6 144

Vehari 112 447 7 394 26 146

Grand Total 5807 21906 1070 20753 1924 6106

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Name of Districts

Execution Petition (4)

Previous pendency


Attock 704 765 0 551 225 693

Bahawalnagar 1419 1488 18 1281 109 1535

Bahawalpur 2194 1457 199 1561 210 2079

Bhakkar 643 432 0 462 43 570

Chakwal 1003 832 0 778 80 977

Chiniot 721 493 12 571 10 645

D.G.Khan 726 580 70 470 170 736

Faisalabad 3436 2075 991 1779 1235 3488

Gujranwala 1546 1363 125 1254 108 1672

Gujrat 1445 766 200 823 253 1335

Hafizabad 508 426 0 378 50 506

Jhang 1490 1106 289 949 583 1353

Jhelum 657 495 1 583 4 566

Kasur 1441 1156 376 1172 381 1420

Khanewal 1130 845 48 842 88 1093

Khushab 407 349 0 236 14 506

Lahore 7832 3467 2371 3226 3039 7405

Layyah 501 399 13 381 18 514

Lodhran 788 600 1 495 60 834

M.B.Din 820 645 231 477 21 1198

Mianwali 506 410 0 345 101 470

Multan 3286 1765 1096 1918 872 3357

Muzaffargarh 1529 1212 0 796 90 1855

Nankana Sahib 759 324 132 354 162 699

Narowal 758 611 289 541 298 819

Okara 1216 1709 89 1037 780 1197

Pakpattan 657 1125 2 564 489 731

R.Y.Khan 1529 1288 0 1248 171 1398

Rajanpur 345 316 23 342 16 326

Rawalpindi 3317 3346 26 2656 500 3533

Sahiwal 1594 1137 980 1419 1323 969

Sargodha 2031 1155 519 1295 447 1963

Sheikhupura 1213 1127 303 1132 288 1223

Sialkot 1724 1539 486 1298 505 1946

T.T.Singh 653 749 0 513 120 769

Vehari 1404 1235 595 1075 625 1534

Grand Total 51932 38787 9485 34802 13488 51914

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Name of Districts

Rent Cases (5)

Previous pendency


Attock 16 39 0 25 5 25


Bahawalpur 57 82 36 78 8 89

Bhakkar 1 8 0 3 2 4

Chakwal 16 42 0 44 1 13

Chiniot 9 17 0 13 1 12

D.G.Khan 12 20 17 15 4 30

Faisalabad 270 625 229 446 229 449

Gujranwala 88 164 0 159 2 91

Gujrat 67 46 2 33 1 81

Hafizabad 7 10 0 15 0 2

Jhang 45 101 3 72 15 62

Jhelum 64 48 0 73 0 39

Kasur 30 58 16 57 16 31

Khanewal 12 31 3 21 2 23

Khushab 7 12 0 5 2 12

Lahore 1447 1395 643 1693 607 1185

Layyah 13 15 0 13 0 15

Lodhran 6 4 0 8 0 2

M.B.Din 7 14 1 7 1 14

Mianwali 2 11 0 5 0 8

Multan 179 256 67 243 23 236

Muzaffargarh 15 25 0 25 0 15

Nankana Sahib 11 15 4 16 0 14

Narowal 13 33 4 29 8 13

Okara 36 97 0 80 12 41

Pakpattan 13 58 0 16 34 21

R.Y.Khan 76 130 0 123 14 69

Rajanpur 15 5 0 13 0 7

Rawalpindi 235 398 0 445 1 187

Sahiwal 40 84 14 60 29 49

Sargodha 48 80 8 76 5 55

Sheikhupura 39 82 20 81 19 41

Sialkot 134 168 81 131 89 163

T.T.Singh 7 21 0 17 0 11

Vehari 29 54 17 50 23 27

Grand Total 3100 4313 1166 4252 1162 3165

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Name of Districts

Guardian Cases (6)

Previous pendency


Attock 117 261 0 253 60 65

Bahawalnagar 136 398 0 449 10 75

Bahawalpur 186 730 65 625 51 305

Bhakkar 114 234 0 210 27 111

Chakwal 67 375 0 371 16 55

Chiniot 132 252 0 264 40 80

D.G.Khan 15 224 0 202 1 36

Faisalabad 1087 2333 270 2039 270 1381

Gujranwala 460 1000 313 889 313 571

Gujrat 338 598 1 497 3 437

Hafizabad 41 154 0 159 0 36

Jhang 271 567 6 436 87 321

Jhelum 152 336 1 339 1 149

Kasur 210 393 68 438 70 163

Khanewal 289 426 73 431 70 287

Khushab 108 211 0 184 0 135

Lahore 2748 3705 380 3878 122 2833

Layyah 39 275 11 234 1 90

Lodhran 100 312 0 283 0 129

M.B.Din 291 300 3 461 8 125

Mianwali 50 269 0 196 3 120

Multan 1383 2098 990 2170 717 1584

Muzaffargarh 305 519 0 567 1 256

Nankana Sahib 456 194 29 246 26 407

Narowal 141 307 41 279 54 156

Okara 262 460 0 419 38 265

Pakpattan 141 416 0 322 55 180

R.Y.Khan 351 635 0 647 13 326

Rajanpur 65 184 2 184 2 65

Rawalpindi 1722 1722 6 2040 304 1106

Sahiwal 334 426 53 395 115 303

Sargodha 240 689 40 629 102 238

Sheikhupura 354 666 10 648 69 313

Sialkot 375 1090 199 980 203 481

T.T.Singh 113 350 0 246 15 202

Vehari 680 562 1 437 12 794

Grand Total 13873 23671 2562 23047 2879 14180

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Name of Districts

Insolvency Cases (7)

Previous pendency

Inst. Rec. Disp. Trans. Bal

Attock 2 0 0 2 0 0


Bahawalpur 6 1 0 2 0 5

Bhakkar 8 9 0 7 0 10

Chakwal 0 122 167 289 0 0

Chiniot 0 0 0 0 0 0

D.G.Khan 8 0 0 2 0 6

Faisalabad 9 6 0 7 0 8

Gujranwala 85 60 0 68 0 77

Gujrat 0 0 0 0 0 0

Hafizabad 0 0 0 0 0 0

Jhang 0 0 0 0 0 0

Jhelum 0 1 0 1 0 0

Kasur 0 0 1 1 0 0

Khanewal 0 0 0 0 0 0

Khushab 1 4 0 2 0 3

Lahore 46 19 0 16 0 49

Layyah 0 0 0 0 0 0

Lodhran 0 0 0 0 0 0

M.B.Din 0 0 0 0 0 0

Mianwali 0 0 0 0 0 0

Multan 1 3 0 2 0 2



Narowal 1 0 0 0 0 1

Okara 3 0 0 1 0 2

Pakpattan 0 0 0 0 0 0

R.Y.Khan 24 42 0 31 0 35

Rajanpur 0 0 0 0 0 0

Rawalpindi 9 5 1 4 0 11

Sahiwal 0 2 6 8 0 0

Sargodha 23 17 0 12 0 28

Sheikhupura 1 0 0 1 0 0

Sialkot 6 3 11 5 10 5

T.T.Singh 0 0 0 0 0 0

Vehari 1 0 0 1 0 0

Grand Total 241 296 186 468 10 245

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Name of Districts

Inquiry Cases (8)

Previous pendency


Attock 0 14 1 12 0 3


Bahawalpur 43 38 15 47 13 36

Bhakkar 7 4 1 12 0 0

Chakwal 5 80 0 36 39 10

Chiniot 11 11 0 14 0 8

D.G.Khan 1 6 0 3 0 4

Faisalabad 35 44 13 51 13 28

Gujranwala 9 9 0 11 1 6

Gujrat 15 19 0 21 0 13


Jhang 0 22 0 14 8 0

Jhelum 15 23 0 30 1 7

Kasur 21 52 15 49 21 18


Khushab 2 6 0 4 0 4

Lahore 160 86 23 38 35 196

Layyah 1 1 0 0 0 2

Lodhran 10 11 0 5 4 12

M.B.Din 1 1 0 2 0 0


Multan 36 82 15 57 3 73


Nankana Sahib 31 107 27 93 24 48

Narowal 10 18 1 22 0 7

Okara 3 16 0 6 0 13

Pakpattan 7 24 0 18 5 8

R.Y.Khan 13 31 0 27 1 16


Rawalpindi 32 53 0 46 3 36

Sahiwal 18 46 4 44 1 23

Sargodha 9 49 3 42 1 18


Sialkot 16 28 10 30 10 14

T.T.Singh 6 3 0 8 0 1

Vehari 14 14 7 14 8 13

Grand Total 581 1080 160 942 200 679

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Name of Districts

Land Acquisition (9)

Previous pendency


Attock 214 47 0 83 0 178


Bahawalpur 123 9 0 39 0 93

Bhakkar 0 0 0 0 0 0

Chakwal 5 3 1 6 0 3

Chiniot 0 0 0 0 0 0

D.G.Khan 26 11 0 15 0 22

Faisalabad 49 17 0 13 0 53


Gujrat 0 0 0 0 0 0


Jhang 0 6 0 2 0 4

Jhelum 5 0 0 0 0 5

Kasur 43 5 1 20 0 29

Khanewal 12 3 0 0 0 15

Khushab 8 0 0 3 0 5

Lahore 343 12 2 98 0 259

Layyah 0 0 0 0 0 0

Lodhran 0 0 0 0 0 0

M.B.Din 2 1 0 1 0 2


Multan 148 24 0 54 0 118



Narowal 9 2 0 2 0 9

Okara 1 0 0 0 0 1


R.Y.Khan 25 1 0 11 0 15

Rajanpur 34 2 0 15 0 21

Rawalpindi 30 66 0 18 0 78

Sahiwal 0 1 0 0 0 1

Sargodha 1 3 0 3 0 1


Sialkot 40 3 0 1 0 42

T.T.Singh 71 4 0 8 0 67

Vehari 0 0 0 0 0 0

Grand Total 1241 223 4 412 0 1056

[77]

Name of Districts

Pauper (10)

Previous pendenc y

Inst . Rec. Disp. Trans. Bal .

Attock 0 2 0 0 2 0



Bhakkar 0 0 0 0 0 0

Chakwal 0 1 2 0 3 0

Chiniot 0 0 0 0 0 0

D.G.Khan 0 0 0 0 0 0



Gujrat 0 0 0 0 0 0


Jhang 1 0 0 1 0 0

Jhelum 0 0 0 0 0 0

Kasur 0 0 0 0 0 0


Khushab 0 1 0 1 0 0

Lahore 0 0 0 0 0 0

Layyah 0 0 0 0 0 0

Lodhran 0 0 0 0 0 0

M.B.Din 2 3 0 1 0 4


Multan 0 0 0 0 0 0



Narowal 0 0 0 0 0 0

Okara 8 2 0 1 2 7


R.Y.Khan 0 0 0 0 0 0



Sahiwal 4 2 0 1 4 1



Sialkot 1 0 0 0 0 1

T.T.Singh 1 0 0 1 0 0

Vehari 1 0 0 0 1 0

Grand Total 32 18 3 14 13 26

[78]

Name of Districts

Objection Petition (11)

Previous pendency


Attock 2 4 1 1 0 6



Bhakkar 0 0 0 0 0 0

Chakwal 1 3 3 5 2 0

Chiniot 0 0 0 0 0 0

D.G.Khan 0 0 0 0 0 0



Gujrat 0 0 0 0 0 0


Jhang 0 4 0 4 0 0

Jhelum 4 5 0 9 0 0

Kasur 7 3 2 7 2 3


Khushab 0 0 0 0 0 0

Lahore 483 356 14 278 494 81

Layyah 0 1 0 0 0 1

Lodhran 1 0 0 0 0 1

M.B.Din 0 0 0 0 0 0


Multan 38 97 4 69 34 36



Narowal 0 1 0 0 1 0

Okara 1 5 8 9 4 1


R.Y.Khan 2 1 0 2 0 1



Sahiwal 0 0 0 0 0 0



Sialkot 1 5 3 8 0 1

T.T.Singh 0 8 0 4 0 4

Vehari 0 0 0 0 0 0

Grand Total 555 512 37 415 540 149

[79]

Name of Districts

Small Claims (12)

Previous pendency


Attock 92 50 2 41 34 69

Bahawalnagar 840 666 0 1201 20 285

Bahawalpur 83 241 380 212 152 340

Bhakkar 0 0 0 0 0 0

Chakwal 1262 715 0 883 608 486

Chiniot 0 0 0 0 0 0

D.G.Khan 488 732 81 848 190 263



Gujrat 68 249 5 91 2 229

Hafizabad 340 102 0 208 7 227

Jhang 0 0 0 0 0 0

Jhelum 0 1 0 1 0 0

Kasur 0 1 0 0 1 0


Khushab 33 104 0 109 0 28

Lahore 97 41 0 29 0 109

Layyah 151 120 57 144 58 126

Lodhran 87 73 0 88 25 47

M.B.Din 0 0 0 0 0 0

Mianwali 171 173 0 120 55 169

Multan 36 31 21 37 25 26



Narowal 0 0 0 0 0 0

Okara 0 0 0 0 0 0


R.Y.Khan 358 317 0 354 63 258



Sahiwal 0 186 0 142 44 0


Sheikhupura 109 53 3 85 12 68

Sialkot 0 23 109 57 75 0

T.T.Singh 33 154 0 112 75 0

Vehari 483 1684 0 962 612 593

Grand Total 4863 5738 671 5765 2114 3393

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Name of Districts

Other Cases (13)

Previous pendency


Attock 737 1455 0 910 167 1115

Bahawalnagar 3708 14448 3 12753 1083 4323

Bahawalpur 2226 2874 267 2575 430 2362

Bhakkar 630 1786 0 1404 2 1010

Chakwal 1108 1047 0 1018 127 1010

Chiniot 514 694 60 704 41 523

D.G.Khan 918 1290 12 1249 84 887

Faisalabad 3106 4244 908 3889 935 3434

Gujranwala 1621 3560 77 3482 92 1684

Gujrat 1992 1156 148 1754 181 1361

Hafizabad 668 1867 10 1768 0 777

Jhang 1429 1962 634 1538 742 1745

Jhelum 538 1947 4 1189 3 1297

Kasur 1335 4635 366 4427 370 1539

Khanewal 879 1161 129 1132 210 827

Khushab 518 491 30 434 0 605

Lahore 12130 13595 4074 12151 4741 12907

Layyah 528 739 82 710 99 540

Lodhran 519 758 6 660 95 528

M.B.Din 392 532 167 597 153 341

Mianwali 523 851 0 535 124 715

Multan 3701 6859 1913 5577 1748 5148

Muzaffargarh 1329 2362 0 1820 40 1831

Nankana Sahib 998 1629 188 1415 510 890

Narowal 815 1083 228 1020 191 915

Okara 1312 3719 0 2549 704 1778

Pakpattan 599 1572 0 1058 510 603

R.Y.Khan 1332 2736 0 2640 155 1273

Rajanpur 317 1192 16 1295 22 208

Rawalpindi 4625 17205 0 15817 460 5553

Sahiwal 1430 1699 272 1554 828 1019

Sargodha 2118 2929 357 2199 795 2410

Sheikhupura 1502 3080 536 2942 495 1681

Sialkot 1852 2995 513 2680 611 2069

T.T.Singh 1019 1245 0 766 383 1115

Vehari 1238 1393 412 1467 236 1340

Grand Total 60206 112790 11412 99678 17367 67363

[81]

Name of Districts

Criminal Sec. 30 Cases (14)

Previous pendency


Attock 302 334 0 207 69 360

Bahawalnagar 809 738 0 597 53 897

Bahawalpur 752 634 356 551 345 846

Bhakkar 352 182 0 216 1 317

Chakwal 354 347 0 341 62 298

Chiniot 704 587 0 600 0 691

D.G.Khan 890 814 538 631 674 937

Faisalabad 2560 2120 1608 1613 2176 2499

Gujranwala 2102 1461 928 986 934 2571

Gujrat 679 617 406 548 292 862

Hafizabad 568 526 0 272 382 440

Jhang 718 729 365 546 444 822

Jhelum 306 227 233 302 195 269

Kasur 1507 1703 1932 1601 2006 1535

Khanewal 871 572 466 539 675 695

Khushab 323 150 0 137 43 293

Lahore 4981 3364 1359 2985 1563 5156

Layyah 281 171 96 211 33 304

Lodhran 386 250 0 188 11 437

M.B.Din 417 449 156 407 163 452

Mianwali 455 707 0 361 212 589

Multan 996 1801 75 903 202 1767

Muzaffargarh 989 1302 0 824 1 1466

Nankana Sahib 1248 721 788 689 1104 964

Narowal 493 275 183 314 184 453

Okara 1955 3558 0 1264 1819 2430

Pakpattan 932 1216 0 611 611 926

R.Y.Khan 752 932 0 702 164 818

Rajanpur 402 387 88 352 114 411

Rawalpindi 1286 2281 0 1433 372 1762

Sahiwal 1354 1327 1161 882 1216 1744

Sargodha 1265 1862 2383 1490 2089 1931

Sheikhupura 1422 1211 161 1115 206 1473

Sialkot 844 965 91 745 83 1072

T.T.Singh 445 527 0 292 47 633

Vehari 752 1089 1160 841 1012 1148

Grand Total 35452 36136 14533 26296 19557 40268

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Name of Districts

Ist Class Other than Crl Cases (15)

Previous pendency


Attock 3366 4740 0 3432 1190 3484

Bahawalnagar 10229 10685 0 10252 616 10046

Bahawalpur 12148 18255 5012 16882 5850 12683

Bhakkar 3723 3996 0 3124 373 4222

Chakwal 2652 5382 0 3402 2195 2437

Chiniot 5041 10130 16 9479 5 5703

D.G.Khan 6601 7899 6843 7924 6375 7044

Faisalabad 24023 23142 8806 21155 9616 25200

Gujranwala 19599 17383 2919 19306 3111 17484

Gujrat 5892 10622 2239 8773 2016 7964

Hafizabad 5146 7022 0 4511 2534 5123

Jhang 8505 14029 6602 11917 8975 8244

Jhelum 2010 4352 2596 3726 3188 2044

Kasur 7437 13502 5615 13282 5534 7738

Khanewal 9106 7418 4919 7784 4853 8806

Khushab 2244 3308 0 2664 162 2726

Lahore 48521 40967 15863 45978 15678 43695

Layyah 2743 4157 1951 3458 2269 3124

Lodhran 4108 6200 626 4713 1137 5084

M.B.Din 3926 6554 3137 6147 3152 4318

Mianwali 4226 8970 0 6413 867 5916

Multan 13310 31817 5391 25682 6010 18826

Muzaffargarh 14626 23280 0 19430 4924 13552

Nankana Sahib 5948 6053 6273 6229 6757 5288

Narowal 5403 5535 1360 5071 1591 5636

Okara 10990 28812 0 19451 8735 11616

Pakpattan 6180 10226 0 6443 4270 5693

R.Y.Khan 14044 29958 0 25841 4364 13797

Rajanpur 4599 6423 937 5225 1215 5519

Rawalpindi 10452 19631 425 17858 1263 11387

Sahiwal 9493 10289 8408 10485 8077 9628

Sargodha 10884 15902 3872 14988 4435 11235

Sheikhupura 8944 11951 3049 11229 3598 9117

Sialkot 9879 11778 1746 11288 1715 10400

T.T.Singh 4483 9447 0 6895 1096 5939

Vehari 11679 12288 5799 11670 7131 10965

Grand Total 332160 462103 104404 412107 144877 341683

[83]

Name of Districts

Total of all Categories (Civil) (1 to 13)

Previous pendency


Attock 7858 9791 2 6794 2443 8414

Bahawalnagar 16049 31802 84 28539 3077 16319

Bahawalpur 20046 23370 3978 21993 3740 21661

Bhakkar 8017 11177 0 8874 2480 7840

Chakwal 9217 11228 5 9678 2519 8253

Chiniot 6542 7667 1298 7761 1276 6470

D.G.Khan 8423 10039 1498 9081 1767 9112

Faisalabad 29153 39714 14549 32922 14749 35745

Gujranwala 16387 23130 3021 20868 2891 18779

Gujrat 12686 11600 2406 11448 2431 12813

Hafizabad 5089 7687 6 7144 396 5242

Jhang 14528 15876 6269 14912 6552 15209

Jhelum 6451 7742 214 6920 227 7260

Kasur 15969 21726 6477 21381 6615 16176

Khanewal 12953 13408 3333 14230 3559 11905

Khushab 5577 5779 0 4696 236 6424

Lahore 83953 81744 42878 79919 42571 86085

Layyah 6301 7416 2072 6545 2045 7199

Lodhran 6612 9830 86 8347 1368 6813

M.B.Din 7447 8146 2004 7846 2070 7681

Mianwali 4405 6831 1 4972 962 5303

Multan 30916 38435 15995 35567 12474 37305

Muzaffargarh 13917 20346 0 16473 1076 16714

Nankana Sahib 8011 8700 2284 7791 3757 7447

Narowal 7359 7786 3405 7249 3398 7903

Okara 16051 26215 195 17307 7008 18146

Pakpattan 9154 18299 7 10534 7636 9290

R.Y.Khan 17844 25402 0 21537 3549 18160

Rajanpur 3643 5866 390 5664 338 3897

Rawalpindi 29740 53353 699 46469 6932 30391

Sahiwal 13016 15537 9577 15405 10215 12510

Sargodha 15972 21567 4521 17641 5483 18936

Sheikhupura 14963 19452 6374 20666 5488 14635

Sialkot 17368 21769 7429 19928 7459 19179

T.T.Singh 8236 13162 0 8698 2655 10045

Vehari 16683 19670 4664 18857 4865 17295

Grand Total 526536 681262 145721 604656 186307 562556

[84]

Name of Districts

Total of all Categories (1 to 15)

Previous pendency


Attock 11526 14889 2 10459 3700 12258

Bahawalnagar 27087 43225 84 39388 3746 27262

Bahawalpur 32946 42259 9346 39426 9935 35190

Bhakkar 12092 15355 0 12214 2854 12379

Chakwal 12223 17005 5 13456 4789 10988

Chiniot 12308 18244 1314 17840 1162 12864

D.G.Khan 15914 18752 8879 17636 8816 17093

Faisalabad 55736 64976 24963 55690 26541 63444

Gujranwala 38088 41974 6868 41160 6936 38834

Gujrat 19257 22839 5051 20769 4739 21639

Hafizabad 10803 15235 6 11927 3312 10805

Jhang 23751 30675 13236 27404 15983 24275

Jhelum 8767 12321 3043 10948 3610 9573

Kasur 24913 37008 14024 36307 14189 25449

Khanewal 23096 21398 8718 22553 9253 21406

Khushab 8144 9237 0 7497 441 9443

Lahore 137455 126075 60100 128882 59812 134936

Layyah 9325 11744 4119 10214 4347 10627

Lodhran 11492 16280 712 13248 2902 12334

M.B.Din 11790 15164 5297 14449 5351 12451

Mianwali 9086 16583 1 11794 2068 11808

Multan 45222 71744 21438 61953 18553 57898

Muzaffargarh 29532 44928 0 36727 6001 31732

Nankana Sahib 15207 15474 9345 14709 11618 13699

Narowal 13255 13596 4948 12634 5173 13992

Okara 28996 58585 195 38024 17560 32192

Pakpattan 16266 29741 7 17588 12517 15909

R.Y.Khan 32640 56292 0 48080 8077 32775

Rajanpur 8644 12676 1415 11241 1667 9827

Rawalpindi 41478 75265 1124 65760 8567 43540

Sahiwal 23863 27359 19146 26914 19572 23882

Sargodha 28121 39399 10776 34190 12004 32102

Sheikhupura 25329 32609 9516 33001 9228 25225

Sialkot 28091 34512 9266 31961 9257 30651

T.T.Singh 13164 23136 0 15885 3798 16617

Vehari 29114 33047 11623 31368 13008 29408

Grand Total 894721 1179601 264567 1043296 351086 944507

[85]

4.4. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT SHOWING PENDENCY, INSTITUTION AND DISPOSAL OF CASES IN BANKING COURTS AS ON 31.12.2013:

Sr. No.

Name of Cour ts Pendenc y

as on 01.01.13

Inst . Disp. Balance

as on 31.12.13

1 Banking Cour t - I , Lahore.

2825 1941 2104 2662

2 Banking Cour t - I I , Lahore.

2908 1432 2023 2317

3 Banking Cour t - I I I , Lahore.

3397 1834 2437 2794

4 Banking Cour t - IV , Lahore.

3255 1992 2436 2811

5 Banking Cour t , Rawalpindi .

1859 1781 2957 683

6 Banking Cour t - I , Faisalabad.

3008 1224 1333 2899

7 Banking Cour t - I I , Faisalabad.

2306 1514 876 2944

8 Banking Cour t - I , Mul tan.

2288 693 1075 1906

9 Banking Cour t - I I , Mul tan.

1712 1218 1203 1727

10 Banking Cour t - I I I , Mul tan.

1831 1316 1511 1636

11 Banking Cour t Sargodha.

1859 895 1819 935

12 Banking Cour t - I , Gujranwala .

2089 1036 1031 2094

13 Banking Cour t - I I , Gujranwala.

1789 734 791 1732

14 Banking Cour t , Bahawalpur .

1687 916 963 1640

TOTAL 32813 18526 22559 28780

[86]

4.5. PENDENCY, INSTITUTION AND DISPOSAL OF CASES IN ANTI-TERRORISM COURTS:

Sr. No.

Name of Cour t Pendenc y

as on 01.01.2013

Inst . Disp. Balance as

on 31.12.2013

1 AT Cour t - I , Lahore.

26 89 83 32

2 AT Cour t - I I , Lahore.

23 82 77 28

3 AT Cour t I I I , Lahore.

24 103 89 38

4 AT Cour t - IV , Lahore.

34 63 65 32

5 AT Cour t , Bahawalpur .

45 112 127 30

6 AT Cour t - I , Gujranwala

12 83 75 20

7 AT Cour t - I I , G/wala.

28 93 94 27

8 AT Cour t - I , Mul tan.

38 142 102 78

9 AT Cour t - I I , Mul tan.

00 00 00 00

10 AT Cour t - I , Rawalpindi .

44 59 79 24

11 AT-Court - I I , R/P indi .

42 52 77 17

12

AT Cour t , Sargodha. Camp at Faisalabad.

14 08

54 55 08

13 00

13 AT Cour t , Faisalabad.

12 123 124 11

14 AT Cour t , D.G. Khan.

87 104 161 30

Grand Total 437 1159 1216 380

[87]

4.6. PENDENCY, INSTITUTION AND DISPOSAL IN ACCOUNTABILITY COURTS:

Sr. No.


as on 1 .1 .13


as on 31.12.2013

1 Accountabi l i t y Court - I , Lahore

31 8 20 19

2 Accountabi l i t y Court - I I , Lahore.

27 15 22 20

3 Accountabi l i t y Court - I I I , Lahore.

00 18 01 17

4 Accountabi l i t y Court - IV , Lahore.

31 50 60 21

5 Accountabi l i t y Court -V , Lahore.

28 8 20 16

6 Accountabi l i t y Court - I , Rawalpindi .

7 1 8 00

7 Accountabi l i t y Court - I I , Rawalpindi .

9 9 11 07

8 Accountabi l i t y Court - I I I Rawalpindi .

5 3 8 00

9 Accountabi l i t y Court - IV Rawalpindi .

4 2 6 00

10 Accountabi l i t y Court , Mul tan.

5 0 0 5

Grand Total 147 114 156 105

[88]

4.7. PENDENCY, INSTITUTION AND DISPOSAL OF CASES IN DRUG COURTS:

Sr. No.


as on 1 .1 .13


as on 31.12.13

1 Drug Court , Lahore.

495 1024 1065 454

2 Drug Court , Gujranwala.

93 601 259 435

3 Drug Court , Faisalabad.

682 521 750 453

4 Drug Court , Rawalpindi

104 285 274 115

5 Drug Court , Mul tan.

367 695 775 287

6 Drug Court , Bahawalpur .

334 430 413 351

TOTAL 2075 3556 3536 2095

4.8. PENDENCY, INSTITUTION AND DISPOSAL OF CASES IN LABOUR COURTS:

Sr. No.


as on 1 .1 .13


as on 31.12.13

1 Labour Court - I , Lahore.

930 453 773 610

2 Labour Court - I I , Lahore.

725 582 639 668

3 Labour Court - I I I , Ferozwala.

465 329 280 514

4 Labour Court , Rawalpindi .

325 156 129 352

5 Labour Court , Faisalabad.

697 490 319 868

6 Labour Court , Mul tan.

982 839 909 912

7 Labour Court , Sargodha

478 87 48 517

8 Labour Court , Gujranwala.

433 274 185 522

9 Labour Court , Bahawalpur .

21 821 757 85

10 Labour Court , Sahiwal .

490 551 441 600

11 Labour Court , D.G.Khan.

690 817 412 1095

TOTAL 6236 5399 4892 6743

[89]

4.9. PENDENCY, INSTITUTION AND DISPOSAL OF CASES IN ANTI-CORRUPTION COURTS:

Sr. No.


as on 1 .1 .13


as on 31.12.13

1 Ant i -Cor rupt ion Court - I . Lahore.

231 303 276 258

2 Ant i -Corrupt ion Court - I I Lahore.

333 229 177 385

3 Ant i -Cor rupt ion Court , Faisalabad.

791 579 354 1016

4 Ant i -Cor rupt ion Court , Gujranwala.

696 242 105 833

5 Ant i -Cor rupt ion Court , Sargodha.

243 325 196 372

6 Ant i -Cor rupt ion Court , Rawalpindi .

283 71 312 42

7 Ant i -Cor rupt ion Court , Mul tan.

125 364 282 207

8 Ant i -Cor rupt ion Court , Bahawalpur .

362 203 230 335

9 Ant i -Cor rupt ion Court , D.G.Khan.

105 513 207 411

10 Ant i -Cor rupt ion Court , Sahiwal .

229 88 64 253

Grand Total 3398 2917 2203 4112

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4.10. PENDENCY, INSTITUTION AND DISPOSAL OF CASES IN CONSUMER COURTS:

Sr. No.


as on 1 .1 .13


as on 31.12.13

1 Consumer Cour t , Lahore.

759 1033 801 991

2 Consumer Cour t , Sahiwal .

54 218 155 117

3 Consumer Cour t , Mul tan.

165 279 396 48

4 Consumer Cour t , D.G.Khan

492 2077 2092 477

5 Consumer Cour t , R.P indi .

14 295 227 82

6 Consumer Cour t , Gujrat .

52 185 98 139

7 Consumer Cour t , S ia lkot

48 139 110 77

8 Consumer Cour t , Gujranwala

120 230 173 177

9 Consumer Cour t , Sargodha.

24 179 178 25

10 Consumer Cour t , Faisalabad.

291 321 303 309

11 Consumer Cour t , Bahawalpur

353 663 653 363

Grand Total 2372 5619 5186 2805

4.11. PENDENCY, INSTITUTION AND DISPOSAL OF CASES IN SPECIAL COURTS (CENTRAL):

Sr. No.


as on 1 .1 .13


as on 31.12.13

1 Specia l Court (Central ) , Lahore.

2487 4226 3103 3610

2 Specia l Court (Central ) , Faisalabad.

281 612 453 440

3 Specia l Court (Central ) , Mul tan.

291 30 115 206

4 Specia l Court (Central ) , Rawalpindi .

1113 164 733 544

TOTAL 4172 5032 4404 4800

[91]

4.12. PENDENCY, INSTITUTION AND DISPOSAL OF CASES IN CNS COURTS:

Sr. No.


as on 1 .1 .13


as on 31.12.13

1 CNS Court , Lahore. 140 149 184 105

2 CNS Court , Rawalpindi .

124 134 137 121

TOTAL 264 283 321 226

4.13. INSTITUTION, DISPOSAL AND PENDENCY OF APPLICATIONS FOR THE CUSTODY OF RESCUED CHILDREN IN THE CHILD PROTECTION COURT, LAHORE:

Sr. No.

Months. Pend. Inst . Disp. Balance

Pendenc y

1 Januar y,2013 349 63 68 344

2 Februar y,2013 344 52 57 339

3 March,2013 339 75 72 342

4 Apr i l ,2013 342 67 83 326

5 May,2013 326 76 83 319

6 June,2013 319 49 61 307

7 Jul y,2013 307 53 60 300

8 August ,2013 300 82 73 309

9 September ,2013 309 131 128 312

10 October ,2013 312 79 81 310

11 November ,2013 310 112 102 320

12 December ,2013 320 66 68 318

905 936

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4.14. CATEGORY-WISE PENDENCY, DISPOSAL AND INSTITUTION OF CASES IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TRIBUNAL:

Sr. No.

Month Pend. Inst . Disp. Balance

Pendenc y

1 Januar y,2013 1785 04 60 1729

2 Februar y,2013 1729 103 65 1767

3 March,2013 1767 165 79 1853

4 Apr i l ,2013 1853 7 108 1752

5 May,2013 1752 1 101 1652

6 June,2013 1652 01 68 1585

7 Jul y,2013 1585 109 72 1622

8 August ,2013 1622 128 93 1657

9 September ,2013 1657 99 59 1697

10 October ,2013 1697 481 105 2073

11 November ,2013 2073 91 146 2018

12 December ,2013 2018 2 103 1917

1191 1059 1917

4.15. CATEGORY-WISE PENDENCY, DISPOSAL AND INSTITUTION OF CASES IN LDA TRIBUNAL:

Sr. No.

Month Pend. Inst . To tal Pend.

Disp. Balance

Pend.

1 Januar y,2013 71 01 72 00 72

2 Februar y,2013 72 01 73 00 73

3 March,2013 73 06 79 01 78

4 Apr i l ,2013 78 00 78 00 78

5 May,2013 78 00 78 00 78

6 June,2013 78 00 78 00 78

7 Jul y,2013 78 00 78 00 78

8 August ,2013 78 00 78 00 78

9 September ,2013 78 00 78 00 78

10 October ,2013 78 00 78 00 78

11 November ,2013 78 06 84 00 84

12 December ,2013 84 04 88 00 88

18 89 1

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Hon’ble Chief Justice & Hon’ble Judges Inaugurating New Urgent Cell.

[95]

Chapter No: 5

Hierarchy and Management

[97]

5.1. ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

[99]

5.2. ADMINISTRATION & MANAGEMENT:

Worthy Registrar Sardar Ahmed Naeem

JUDICIAL OFFICERS WORKING AT HIGH COURT:

Sr. No.

Names Designat ion Place of Posting

1 Mr. Habib Ul lah Ami r D&SJ M.I .T.

2 Mr. Jawad u l Hassan D&SJ Staf f Of f icer to HCJ

3 Mr. Khaqan Babar D&SJ D&SJ (Est t . )

4 Mr. Muhammad Yousaf Auj la AD&SJ Addl . M. I .T - I I I

5 Ms. Bushra Zaman AD&SJ

Addl . MIT- I I (shal l a lso look af ter the work of Moni tor ing Incharge (NJP Implementat ion Cel l in addi t ion to her own duty)

6 Mr. Ashtar Abbas AD&SJ Addl .Regis t rar (Judic ia l )

7 Mr. Muhammad Kaleem Khan AD&SJ Addl .Regis t rar (Rawalp ind i )

8 Mr. Muhammad Javed-u l -Hassan Chisht i

AD&SJ Addl .Regis t rar(Mul tan)

9 Mr. Haroon Lat i f Khan AD&SJ Addl . MIT- I

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ADDITIONAL REGISTRARS:

Sr. No.

Names Place of Posting

1 Mr. At ta -ur-Rehman Addi t iona l . Regis t rar (Genera l & Services)

2 Mr. I rshad Ul lah Rana Addi t ional Regis t rar (Human Rights)

3 Mr. Mustansar Hasnain Shah Addi t ional Regis t rar (Legis la t ion)

4 Mr. Abdul Nas i r Addi t ional Regis t rar (Transport )

5 Mr. Muhammad Shahid Hussain Addi t ional Regis t rar (Establ ishment )

6 Mr. Riaz Al i Za id i Addi t ional Regis t rar (Bahawalpur Bench)

7 Mr. Muhammad Nasi r Addi t ional Regis t rar (Planning & Development )

8 Mr. I jaz Hussain O.S.D, Bahawalpur Bench

9 Mr. Rab Nawaz Khan Addi t ional Regis t rar (F inance) on contract bas is

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DEPUTY REGISTRARS:

Sr. No.

Name Place of post ing

1 Mrs. Saima Mushtaq Deputy Regis t rar ( I .T- 1)

2 Mr. I rshad Munawar Deputy Regis t rar (Tr ibunals)

3 Ch. Muhammad Hani f Deputy Regis t rar (Planning & Development)

4 Mr. Muhammad Akram Deputy Regis t rar (Rawalp ind i Bench)

5 Mr. Muhammad Hafeez Khal id Deputy Regis t rar (Genera l ) Bahawalpur Bench

6 Mr. Muhammad Raf iq Deputy Regis t rar ( I -T- I I )

7 Syed Shabbi r Hussain Shah Deputy Regis t rar (Judic ia l - I I )

8 Mian Mushtaq Ahmad Deputy Regis t rar (Genera l & Transport )

9 Mr. Perva iz Khal id . Deputy Regis t rar (Genera l ) Mul tan, Bench

10 Mr. Muhammad Sarwar Deputy Regis t rar (Judic ia l ) Bahawalpur , Bench

11 Mr. Abdul Hafeez Deputy Regis t rar (Leg is l a t ion )

12 Mr. Abid Hussain Bokhar i Deputy Regis t rar (JObs)

13 Mr. Muhammad Asghar Deputy Regis t rar (Judl . I )

14 Mr. I f t ikhar Ahmad Samdani Deputy Regis t rar (Supervis ing Urgent Cel l )

15 Sheikh Muhammad Nadeem Deputy Regis t rar (Budget & Planning )

16 Mr. Arshad Mahmood Ba ig Deputy Regis t rar (Protocol )

17 Mr. Riaz Hussain Shahid Deputy Regis t rar (Accounts)

18 Mr. Muhammad Ar i f Mal i k Deputy Regis t rar (Admin .)

19 Mian Ash faq Ahmad D.R/P.S to Hon ’b le Mr. Jus t ice Manzoor Ahmad Mal ik

20 Mr. Imran Safdar Deputy Regis t rar ( I .T- I I I )

21 Al i Zaman Deputy Regis t rar (Audi t & Purchase)

22 Mr. Johnson Bernard D.R/P.S (Addi t i ona l Hand) to Hon’b le Mr . Jus t ice Muhammad Farrukh I r fan Khan

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ASSISTANT REGISTRARS:

Sr. No.

Name Place of Post ing

1 Mr. Farrukh Rashid Ass is tant Regis t ra r ( Civ i l - I I )

2 Mr. Abdul Ghafoor Ass is tant Regis t ra r ,Transport

3 Mr. Zafar Iqbal Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Job - I )

4 Mr. Masood Ahmad Ass is tant Regis t ra r ,Scanning

5 Mr. Zahoor Hussain. Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Copy)

6 Mr. Shahbaz Ashraf Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Bank ing) /Coord inato r NJP

7 Mr. Mansoor -u l -Haq Ass is tant Regis t ra r , Res ident (Rawalp ind i Bench)

8 Mirza Inam Ul lah Baig Ass is tant Regis t ra r , Protocol (Ret i red Judges Cel l )

9 Mr. Muhammad Shahbaz Ass is tant Regis t ra r , Lower Court Establ ishment

10 Mr. Ghazanfa r Al i Shah Ass is tant Regis t ra r , Genera l (Mul tan)

11 Mr. Muhammad Khal id Akhtar Shaheen

Ass is tant Regis t ra r , (Job- I I )

12 Mr. Z ia -ur -Rehman. Ass is tant Regis t ra r , Res ident (Bahawalpur)

13 Mr. Dawood Ahmad. Ass is tant Regis t ra r , (Conf ident ia l - I )

14 Mr. Riaz Ahmad Ass is tant Regis t ra r , (Sta f f )

15 Mr. Muhammad Younis Rana

Ass is tant Regis t ra r (W ri t - I )

16 Mr. Khal id Mehmood Ass is tant Regis t ra r ,Cr im inal , Rawalp ind i (a lso supervis ing the seat work of D.R (Genl . )

17 Mr. L iaqat Al i Ass is tant Regis t ra r , Res ident , Mul tan.

18 Mr. I f t ikhar Ahmad Ass is tant Regis t ra r , I .T. ( I )

19 Mr. Muni r Ahmad Ass is tant Regis t ra r , I .T- I I

20 Mr. Nasru l lah Khan Niaz i Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Conf ident ia l - I I )

21 Syed Zia Abbas Ass is tant Regis t ra r (M. I .T- I )

22 Mr. Muhammad Ajmal Ass is tant Regis t ra r , Cr iminal , Bahawalpur .

23 Mr. Muhammad Al ta f Ass is tant Regis t ra r , Judic ia l . Rawalp ind i

24 Mr. Ghulam Rabbani Ass is tant Regis t ra r (W ri t ) Mul tan

25 Mr. Abdul Shakoor Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Genera l )

26 Mr. Saj jad Ahmad Ass is tant Regis t ra r ,Purchase

27 Mr. I r fan Ahmad Niazi Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Bui ld ing)

28 Mr. I jaz Ahmad Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Civ i l - I )

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Sr. No.


29 Mr. Khadim Hussain Ass is tant Regis t ra r (MIT)

30 Mr. M.B.Shahid (On deputat ion)

Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Pub l ic Relat ions/Publ icat ions )

31 Mr. Usman Shahid Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Budget )

32 Mr. Nas im Shahid Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Civ i l ) Mul tan

33 Mr. Abid Al i Chaudhry Ass is tant Regis t ra r ,Cr im inal - I

34 Haf i z Saj jad Ahmad Ass is tant Regis t ra r , (Gazet te - I I )

35 Mr. Muhammad Zaman Sabi r

Ass is tant Regis t ra r , work ing in the Cour t o f Hon’b le Mr. Just ice Shahid W aheed

36 Mr. Muhammad Nadeem Ass is tant Regis t ra r (W ri t - I I )

37 Syed Amir Al i Ass is tant Regis t ra r , Legis la t ion

38 Mr. Muhammad Shaf ique Ass is tant Regis t ra r (SMIT)

39 Mr. Shahid Naseer Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Record)

40 Mr. Riaz Ahmad Khan Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Computer)

41 Mr. Ashfaq Ahmad Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Human Rights Cel l )

42 Mr. Hammad Ahmad Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Planning and Development)

43 Mr. Ar i f Javaid Dar Ass is tant Regis t ra r (J&M)

44 Mr. Izhar -u l -Haq Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Protocol ) Rawalp ind i .

45 Mr. Noor Muhammad Work ing as pr ivate secretary in the Cour t o f Hon’b le Mr. Just ice Shahid W aheed

46 Mr. Basharat Mahmood Ass is tant Regis t ra r , Genera l , Rawalp ind i

47 Mr. Ashfaq Ahmad W or k i n g a s P er s o n a l As s is t a n t i n t h e c o ur t o f H o n’ b l e M r . J u s t i c e S ye d M u h am m a d K az im R az a S h am si

48 Mr. Muhammad Samieh Khan

Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Cr iminal - I I )

49 Mr. Al lah Di t ta Khal id Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Gaz- I )

50 Mr. Shahid Iqbal W ork ing as Addi t iona l Hand Pr iva te secreta ry i n the cou r t o f Hon’b le Mr . Jus t ice Abdul Sam i Khan)

51 Mr. Muhammad I r fan Ass is tant Regis t ra r , Commerc ia l

52 Mr. Muhammad Maqsood Ch.

Work ing as Personal Ass is tant in the court o f Hon’b le Mr. Just ice Sardar Tar iq Masood

53 Mr. Taimoor Al i Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Staf f Of f ice r to Regis t ra r )

54 Mr. Usman Shaukat Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Receipts)

55 Mr. Muhammad Zubai r As i f Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Protocol )

56 Mr. Muhammad Khurram I lyas

Ass is tant Regis t ra r ( IT Sect ion)

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Sr. No.


57 Mr. At ta u r Rehman Ass is tant Regis t ra r ( IT Sect ion)

58 Mr. Awais Afza l Ass is tant Regis t ra r ( IT Sect ion)

59 Mr. Abdul Hameed Ass is tant Regis t ra r (W ri t ) , Rawalp ind i

60 Mr. Abdul Aziz Qureshi Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Genera l ) , Bahawalpur .

61 Mr. Tanvi r Rehmat Mal ik Ass is tant Regis t ra r (Cr iminal ) , Mul tan

62 Rana Muhammad Younas Ass is tant Regis t ra r (CRCs )

LIBRARY, ACCOUNTS AND SECURITY OFFICERS.

Name Designation

Mr. Muhammad Saj jad But t L ibrar ian

Mr. Muhammad Azam Work ing as Accounts of f icer on current charge bas is in BS-17

Ch. Muhammad Tar iq Treasury Of f icer

Muhammad Sarwar Awan DSP/Secur i t y Of f icer

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Chapter No: 6

Performance of Various Wings

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6.1. MEMBER INSPECTION TEAM WING:

On the recommendations of a committee comprising six Hon’ble

Senior Judges of West Pakistan High Court, constituted by the

Hon’ble Chief Justice, initially two posts of Member Inspection

Team, each at Lahore and Karachi were sanctioned by the

Government of West Pakistan, Home Department, vide

Notification No.1/26-H.Judl.(II)/69, dated 17.10.1969 only for six

months. Later on, the Governor of West Pakistan, after a

protracted correspondence, was pleased to sanction the same on

permanent basis.

The primary object of the creation of post of Member Inspection

Team was to devise ways and means to improve efficiency and

eliminate corruption from the working of Civil and Criminal Courts

in the Province as due to overall volume of work with the Hon’ble

Judges, regular and normal inspections could not be conducted

by them and to observe normal inspection schedule was also not

possible. As a special measure, procedure for inspection was laid

by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of the High Court of West Pakistan

on the recommendations of a Committee comprising six Hon’ble

Judges of this court to undertake regular inspection of the District

Courts as it was undesirable to leave the District Judiciary

without any swift and regular inspection system and supervision.

The grievances of the office bearers of the Bar Associations as

well as the litigant public need prompt action which can only be

redressed by the office of Member Inspection Team. The MIT

office also holds detailed probes into the complaints received

against members of District Judiciary and monitors their work and

conduct. From the very creation of this office, the learned District

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and Sessions Judges and District Magistrates were required to

submit the monthly review reports qua work done by the Judicial

Officers, working under their respective control which required

intensive study by this office and follow up of the necessary

instructions issued in this behalf.

The Hon’ble Chief Justice Mr. Justice Umar Ata Bandial after his

lordship’s elevation as Chief Justice was pleased to pass a

direction to this office to take steps for eradication of corruption in

the District Judiciary and para-legal staff and for this purpose, to

design a fresh format to carry out the surprise and regular

inspections of the District Courts across the Province of Punjab.

As per direction of the Hon’ble Chief Justice, regular inspections

in the Punjab were carried out by Hon’ble Inspection Judges of a

number of Districts alongwith Members of Inspection Team of

this office. Regular Surprise visits were also made by the

Member Inspection Team to different Districts to check

punctuality, work, conduct of courts as well as the record

maintained by them.

Under command of the Hon’ble Chief Justice, regular quarterly

meetings of Anti-Terrorism Courts was also held in the

supervision of Hon’ble Administrative Judge Mr. Justice Manzoor

Ahmad Malik and attended by the learned Judges of Anti-

Terrorism Courts working in the Punjab, Secretary Interior,

Government of Pakistan, Secretary, Home Department,

Government of Punjab, the Prosecutor General, all the Regional

Police Officers and other Heads of related Departments.

Following table would indicate the institution of various categories

of matters and their disposal ratio during the year in question.

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Categories Pendency as on 1.1.2013

Institution Disposal Under Process

Balance as on 31.12.2013

Compla ints Ord inary (CO)

778 1012 825 965 965

Compla ints Corrupt ion (CC)

240 152 254 138 138

Reference 108 35 22 121 121

Compla int Genera l (SMIT) (Addl :MIT- I ) (CGDCS) (HRC)

82

10

32

02

66

1763

191

570

66

1226

94

544

82

547

129

28

82

547

129

28

Spec ia l Reports

82 17 27 72 72

Ear ly Disposal

751 1461 1709 503 503

Surpr ise vis i ts / Inspect ion Notes.

00 432 396 36 00

Month ly Ja i l Inspect ion Notes.

00 432 396 36 00

Minutes of Month ly Meet ings wi th the Judic ia l Of f icers .

00 396 360 36 00

Minutes of Cr iminal Just ice Coord inat ion Commit tee.

00 432 396 36 00

Quarte r ly Inspect ion Notes.

00 144 108 36 00

Sess ions Courts .

129798 749679 716350 00 163127

Civi l Cour ts . 894721 1444168 1394382 00 944507

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Thus, the MIT Branch is also poised to monitor overall

performance of the Accountability Courts, Anti-Terrorism Courts,

Labour Courts, Banking Courts, Anti-Corruption Courts, Drug

Courts, Consumer Courts and all other Special Courts and

Tribunals in the Province. Hon’ble Monitoring/Administrative

Judges of these Court provided their esteemed guidance to the

Presiding Officers and held meetings with them. The meetings

with Presiding Officers of Banking Courts were also held for

evaluating their performance and also for resolution of their

difficulties. During the year 2013, MIT Wing issued, Inter-alia,

following directives/instructions for smooth running of Court work

and for expeditious disposal of the cases.

a) Letter No.2419-MIT/HC/2-S, dated 29.01.2013, whereby direction was issued to all the learned District and Sessions Judges to ensure that monthly statements on prescribed proforma showing institution, disposal and pendency of Sessions/civil and criminal cases together with explanations, if any, of the officers who did not achieve the required targets both in number of units and contested cases, must reach this Court before the 10th of every month without fail.

b) Letter No.10087-MIT/HC/ATC, dated 19.3.2013 whereby direction was issue to all the learned District and Sessions Judges and all the Judges of Anti-Terrorism Courts in Punjab to comply with the orders of august Supreme Courts of Pakistan passed in CMA No.1145 of 2013 in SMC No.16 of 2011.

c). Letter No.11934-MIT/HC/SCP, dated 10.04.2013 whereby direction was issued to all the learned District and Sessions Judges in Punjab in the light of orders of august Supreme Court of Pakistan while disposing of a complaint moved by Mr. Ashley Advocate, B-167, SMCHS, Karachi regarding eradication of corruption amongst the Court personnel of the District Judiciary.

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d). Vide letter No.19140-MIT/HC/ATC, dated 10.06.2013, direction was issued to all the learned Judges of Anti-Terrorism Courts in Punjab passed in the meeting held on 8.6.2013 to submit the daily performance report of ATA cases.

e) Vide letter No.34598-AMIT-I/HC/13, dated 20.12.2013 written to all the learned District and Sessions Judges in Punjab with the direction that it was noticed that the correspondence addressed to Hon’ble Court was often bereft of reference number which created difficulty and it made onerous to trace the proper files. In future, every correspondence addressed to the Worthy Registrar, must bear reference number of the letter of this Court in order to avoid any inconvenience in delivery of the letter to the concerned branch.

f) Letter No.34949-MIT/HC, dated 27.12.2013 whereby the direction was issued to all the learned District and Sessions Judges in the Punjab to submit the reports with views regarding the abuse of process in recording of evidence through appointment of commission.

All officers and officials of the MIT Section at Lahore High Court,

Lahore are found committed to discharge onerous duty entrusted

to them with absolute integrity, competence, efficiency, courtesy

and pledge to reduce miseries of people enabling the District

Judiciary of Punjab to extend trust-worthy and efficient services.

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6.2. COMPLAINT CELL:

The Complaint Cell was established in the High Court in the year

2008 with a view to curbing nepotism, favouritism, bribery and

corruption at the District Judiciary and High Court level and to

provide speedy relief to the masses/litigant public on the

administrative side. The Cell is headed by an officer of this Court

in BS-18 which provides free and fair opportunities to all and

sundry to have their grievances promptly redressed under direct

supervision of the Chief Justice Secretariat. It also caters to an

in-house accountability of the establishment members of Lahore

High Court and its three benches.

Complaint Cell is a panacea for providing access to the masses

to have their grievances redressed quickly on the administrative

side at upper level. It also provides in-built accountability

process for the administration of High Court. Complaint Cell is to

take into account the allegations leveled in the complaints and

those containing allegations of serious nature are promptly

placed before the Hon’ble Chief Justice.

The complaint cell has two – fold function i.e. one to deal with the

complaints against the Officers/officials of the High

Court/subordinate courts and the other to deal with the

complaints containing serious allegations against the Judicial

Officers. The complaints containing serious allegations are

investigated by the Complaint Cell in its operative capacity. The

complaints are normally received by post but the people having

grouse against any judicial functionary or facing difficulties

relating to their cases pending before the Courts may also visit

the Complaint Cell. The complainants are given patient hearing

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and best efforts are resorted to lessen their miseries and redress

their grievances daily on priority basis. Members of the Bar and

litigant public have appreciated the performance and setting up of

the Complaint Cell. All the complaints received were processed

promptly. Most of the complaints have been finally disposed of

while some are under process.

During the year 2013, total of 10491 complaints were dealt with

in the Complaint Cell, details of which are as under:-

Category Institution Disposal Under

process

News items regarding human rights violation i.e. gang rape, acid attack, police encounter & torture cases.

263 115 148

Complaints against Officers/ officials of this Court

38

Sent to the

learned Registrar

Miscellaneous complaints 4874 4874

Sent to the learned Registrar 1608 -- -- Sent to the MIT 2765 -- -- Sent to the AR (Judl.) 953 -- --

Total 10501 4989 148

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6.3. HUMAN RIGHTS CELL:

Quick provision of relief to common man without any expense

has generated a high degree of trust and confidence in the

general public regarding the judiciary as a whole. The Human

Rights exercise has also played a pivotal role in eliminating social

evils like Vani, Karo-Kari, dangerous kite-flying, etc., which were

rampant in the society to the detriment of common man. The

office of the Human Rights Cell was established in April, 2009.

The Human Rights Cell is mandated to expeditiously process the

complaints and grievances received from the general public as

well as from Human Rights Cell of august Supreme Court of

Pakistan which are forwarded to public functionaries for disposal

and necessary action under intimation to this cell. Subsequently,

the said reports are put up before the Hon’ble Chief Justice and

worthy Registrar for appropriate orders. Relief is provided to the

poor persons without going through the traditional protracted

litigation process.

The performance details of the Human Rights Cell during the

year under review are mention hereunder:-

Category Previous pendency

Institution Total Disposal Balance

HRC 02 570 572 563 09

CGDCS 32 191 223 106 117

Total 34 761 795 669 126

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6.4. FINANCE WING:

The finance wing comprises of five branches and two subsidiary

cells:-

Budget Branch

Accounts Branch

Bill Branch

Receipt Branch

Purchase Branch

Audit & Account Cell

Treasury

The Wing works under the supervision of the Addl. Registrar

(Finance) and comprises Deputy Registrar (Accounts), Deputy

Registrar (Budget and Planning), Deputy Registrar (Purchase

and Audit), Assistant Registrar (Accounts), Assistant Registrar

(Bill), Assistant Registrar (Budget), Assistant Registrar

(Receipts), Assistant Registrar (Purchase) , Assistant Registrar

(Audit), Account officer and Treasury officer.

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6.4.1. BUDGET BRANCH:

Budget Branch is one of the key branches of the Finance Wing. It

deals with current Budget of the entire Provincial Judiciary

including Lahore High Court, Sessions Courts, Civil Courts, Small

Causes Court and Anti-Terrorism Courts established under Anti-

Terrorism Act (ATA Courts). It performs multifarious functions of

important nature for the achievement of assigned goals and

objectives as entrusted by the Hon’ble higher authorities and as

laid down in the Punjab Budget Manual and Punjab Financial

Rules.

During the previous year, Budget Branch performed following

distinctive jobs:-

1. Secured more than 10273 posts through SNE for Lahore High

Court and District Judiciary, as under:-

Name of Quarter Nos. of Posts

Created

Lahore High Cour t (Pr inc ipal Seat & Benches) 120

Sessions Cour ts in the Punjab ( inc luding 317 posts of AD&SJJ a longwi th anc i l lary staf f )

2919

Civ i l Courts in the Punjab ( inc luding 696 posts of Civ i l Judges a longwith anc i l lary staf f )

7230

ATA Courts 4

Total 10273

2. Launched new initiatives pertaining to provision of services

and articles to District Judiciary and made funds available as

per detail below:

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SERVICE ITEMS:

Establishment of one fully furnished Rest House in 34

districts except Okara & Vehari with approved strength of

contingent paid staff viz; Care Taker, Cook and Sweeper.

SOPs issued for the use of Rest House and running mess

on no profit-no loss basis.

TRANSPORT FACILITIES:

One Suzuki Bolan with Driver for each Sessions Courts

for official purpose and allowing private use on payment.

9 Hiace STD Roof Dual AC 2.7 Gasoline (3 for Lahore, 2

for Rawalpindi and 1 each for Bahawalpur, Faisalabad,

Multan & Sahiwal).

SOPs issued for care and use of vehicles.

Approval to appoint contingent paid drivers.

Funds allocation for the purchase of 154 Motorcycles (8

for Lahore 6 each for Gujranwala, Faisalabad & Multan

and 4 each for remaining districts).

I.T. EQUIPMENT & ESTABLISHMENT OF DIGITAL LIBRARY:

EVO for all Judicial Officer.

Heavy Duty Scanner for each Sessions Court.

Membership fee for Pakistan Law Site for each Sessions

Court.

Desktop Computer with LCD for each Sessions Court.

Multimedia Projector for each Sessions Court.

Funds to the tune of Rs.25000/- for all Judicial Officer for

purchasing of law books.

Funds amounting to Rs.4000/- for all Judicial Officers for

purchasing briefcase.

Provision of 2 Air Conditioners for all Sessions Court.

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PROVISION OF FURNITURE TO COURTS & OTHER ARTICLES AS PER FOLLOWING YARDSTICK:

Provision of Judges Chairs, Rostrums, Circular Tables, office & court Chairs, Steel Almirahs and Wooden Racks as per demands of the districts.

SUPPLYING OF OTHER ARTICLES AS PER FOLLOWING YARDSTICK:

Provision of electric Fixtures, Electric Water Coolers, Water Dispensers, Curtains, Crockery items, Photostate Machines, Electric Grass Cutter Machines and Bio Matrix Systems.

SUPPLYING OF GENERATOR:

Provision of funds for purchasing of Generators to Sessions Courts of different capacities from 5 KVA to 200 KVA.

OUTSOURCING SANITATION:

For sanitation of district courts complexes, guidelines have been issued for outsourcing and funds have been allocated for the appointment of contingent paid staff for sanitary purposes in case securing of sanitation facilities are not achieved through competitive means.

REPAIRING & REHABILITATION OF JUDICIAL BUILDINGS OF DISTRICT JUDICIARY:

Due to the constant follow up of the Budget Branch, Building Department executed the repair work of Judicial Complexes of both Courts and residences of District Judiciary and spent a sum of Rs.158.55 million during the year 2012-13, detail of which is mentioned below:-

Description Expenditure

Expenditure carried out for M&R work in respect of North Zone, Lahore

84,358,516

Expenditure carried out for M&R work in respect of South Zone, Lahore

74,199,747

Grand Total 158,558,263

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3. Continued maintaining Online entries on System of Budget &

re-appropriation in respect of Lahore High Court & entire

Judiciary for securing ‘real time’ accounting enabling the Wing

monitor, overview and reconcile the expenditure of the

Judiciary.

4. Submission of Annual & Revised Budget allocation of this

Court and District Judiciary in the Punjab,

5. Secured 100% Reconciliation of Expenditure figures in

respect of Lahore High Court, Lahore & its allied benches,

Sessions, Civil, ATA Courts & Small Causes Court.

6. Maintained Sanctioned Strength of the posts for each cadre in

respect of entire Provincial Judiciary.

7. Granting of Financial Assistance to the legal heirs of 45

deceased officers/officials of the courts, who expired while in

service.

8. Budget allocations for 2013-2014 and 2012-2013 and their

utilization remained as under:-

DE T AI LE D FU NC T I ONS

BUD GE T AL L O C AT IO N

2 01 3 - 20 1 4

BUD GE T AL L O C AT IO N

2 01 2 - 20 1 3

E X P E N DI T UR E 2 01 2 - 20 1 3

P E RC E N T AG E ( % )

UT I L I Z AT I O N

LQ 4 1 1 2 - LA H ORE H IGH C OU RT (C HA R GE D )

2 , 1 6 1 , 5 2 8 , 0 00 2 , 0 6 4 , 1 6 9 , 0 00 1 , 9 9 5 , 6 3 1 , 9 11 9 7 %

LQ 4 1 1 1 - LA H ORE H IGH C OU RT

(V OT E D ) 5 , 8 0 5 , 0 0 0 1 5 , 5 70 , 0 00 1 1 , 6 20 , 6 97 7 5 %

LQ 4 1 1 4 -S E S S IO NS

CO URT S 2 , 0 3 5 , 8 2 4 , 0 00 2 , 2 5 5 , 8 2 6 , 7 85 2 , 1 6 9 , 8 7 8 , 5 20 9 6 %

LQ 4 1 1 5 - C IV IL CO URT S

4 , 1 9 6 , 4 3 5 , 0 00 3 , 6 2 4 , 8 5 7 , 9 61 3 , 5 2 5 , 4 2 9 , 5 67 9 7 %

LQ 4 1 1 6 -S P E C IA L

CO URT S (A NT I -T E RR OR IS M)

9 0 , 1 33 , 0 00 1 02 , 74 5 , 59 4 9 1 , 2 74 , 6 77 8 9 %

LQ 4 1 1 7 - S MA LL CA US E S C OU RT

2 7 , 8 51 , 0 00 2 2 , 6 57 , 0 07 2 2 , 3 10 , 9 58 9 8 %

T OT A L (C HA R GE D )

2 , 1 6 1 , 5 2 8 , 0 00 2 , 0 6 4 , 1 6 9 , 0 00 1 , 9 9 5 , 6 3 1 , 9 11 9 7 %

T OT A L (V OT E D) 6 , 3 5 6 , 0 4 8 , 0 00 6 , 0 2 1 , 6 5 7 , 3 47 5 , 8 2 0 , 5 1 4 , 4 19 9 7 %

GR AN D T O T AL 8 , 5 1 7 , 5 7 6 , 0 00 8 , 0 8 5 , 8 2 6 , 3 47 7 , 8 1 6 , 1 4 6 , 3 30 9 7 %

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6.4.2. ACCOUNTS BRANCH:

The Accounts Branch assisted the High Court,(Principal Seat) in

pre-audit of payments on account of procurement of assets. The

table/statement indicated below reflects the object-wise

expenditure incurred by Lahore High Court during the year 2013.

EXPENDITURE STATEMENT FROM 1ST JANUARY 2013 TO 31ST DECEMBER 2013

HEAD DESCRIPTION TOTAL

ANNUAL

AO-1277 Cont ingent paid s taf f 24942608

AO-3201 Postage & Telegram 3325000

AO3202 Telephone Charges 11374522

AO3205 Cour ier Charges 1891574

AO3301 Sui Gas Charges 13982597

AO3302 Water Charges 605315

AO3303 Electr ic i t y Charges 51160494

AO3407 Rates & Taxes 1272064

AO3806 Freight Charges 9050

AO3807 P.O.L Charges 41752031

AO3808 Conveyance Charges 238735

AO3901 Off ice Stat ionery 6590690

AO3902 Pr int ing Charges 1400442

AO3905 Law books & News paper

2485355

AO3906 Uniform & Liver ies 1934252

AO3907 Publ ic i ty & Adver t isement

431963

AO3918 Nat ional Celebrat ion 125000

AO3919 Payment to others for service Rendered

2341528

AO3936 Course Charges/Fee 1000040

AO3942 Other Stores 4009358

AO3955 Computer Stat ionery 2292825

AO3970 Others 8476733

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HEAD DESCRIPTION TOTAL

ANNUAL

AO5216 Financ ia l Ass istance 800000

AO6301 Enterta inment & Gif t (04666)

5124577

AO9501 Purchase of Transpor t 43996500

AO9601 Purchase of Machinery 14348254

AO9701 Purchase of Furni ture 374640

A-13001 Repair of Transport 4644580

A-13101 Repair of Machinery 1967296

A-13201 Repair of Furni ture 483080

A-13801 Maintenance of Garden 453995

AO9203 Purchase of I .T . Equipment

9623399

F-021 Imprest Money 300000

Grand Total 263758497

As the Accounts Branch is meant to be also the Protocol

giving Branch, it assisted getting Official Passports and

I.D. Cards issued to the Hon’ble Judges of this Court.

The branch also deals with the bill correction,

maintenance, complaints, reconciliation with other

department like WAPDA, Sui Gas, WASA, PTCL and

NTC, etc. and preparation of all utility bills as well as

contingent bills of all the working Hon’ble Judges and

officers of this Court. It also deals with the preparation of

utility bills of the Hon’ble Retired Judges.

Telephone Exchange installed at the Principal Seat of this

Court was working with 172 lines. As many as 64 lines

have been added to the Exchange facility during the year-

2013.

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Arrangement was made for controlling/monitoring over

consumption of power, fast track payment of utility and

telephone charges by downloading the demand bill from

web page of the service providers.

The electricity bill of tube well installed in the Judicial

Academy amounting to Rs. 21,13,764/- was got adjusted

from the LESCO department with the hectic efforts of

Accounts Branch.

With constant and timely follow up, cheques are being

received from Accountant General Office normally within

three days. Due to this arrangement, the contractor /

suppliers are smoothly supplying the required items

without any hesitation and on competitive rates.

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6.4.3. BILL BRANCH:

The tasks performed by the Bill Branch in year 2013 are as

follows:-

Descript ion No. of Cases Final ized

Pay Bi l ls 126

Arrears Bi l ls 761

Pension Cases/ Fami ly Pens ion Cases inc lud ing revised pens ion cases

57

Move-Over & Success ive Move -over cases

06

Insurance Cla ims 08

TA-DA Bi l ls 651

Medica l Bi l ls 188

G.P Fund Bi l ls 46

Leave Encashment Bi l ls 13

Issuance of LPC 70

Service Books ’ Comple t ion 1300

Budget Sta tements 15

Computer i zed Changes 4200

Bi l ls Deposi ted /Col lec ted in / f rom A.G. Punjab re la t ing to a l l o f f icers & of f ic ia ls and cont ingency.

15300 depos i ted and a l l got c leared and cheques received against them.

Reconstruct ion of Service Books 02

Leave avai lab i l i t y report 350

Ver i f icat ion of Pens ion/Fami ly pens ion cases at Treasury of f ice

65

Init iat ives in the Bil l Branch remained as under: -

Constitution of Move-Over Committee/Selection Board for

consideration of award of Move-Over which was never

done before.

Initiation of Pension through direct credit to bank account

of pensioner or bank account maintained at their native

city, by which 24 pension cases were dealt with and 09

cases of the Pensioner were shifted to computerized

system of pension and computerization of salary of all

officials.

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6.4.4. RECEIPT BRANCH:

Receipt Branch deals with the matter regarding revenue receipts

pertaining to Lahore High Court and entire district Judiciary in the

Punjab. It also accomplished assigned goals and objectives as

entrusted by the higher authorities and as laid down in the

Punjab Budget Manual, Punjab Financial Rules and Budget Call

Circular issued by the Government of Punjab, Finance

Department for submission of Budget Estimates of Receipt in

respect of Lahore High Court (Principal Seat & Benches),

Sessions, Civil, Small Cause Court, Lahore and ATA Courts in

the Punjab.

During the previous year Receipts Branch performed following

distinctive functions:

Well in time submission of Budget Estimates of Receipt and

Revised Budget Estimates of Receipts to Government of the

Punjab, Finance Department, Lahore.

Maintenance of Monthly Receipts figures in respect of High

Court and its three Benches, Civil and Sessions/ATA Courts

in the Punjab and Small Causes Court, Lahore. It is

mentioned that in the last fiscal year 2012-13 total receipts of

whole judiciary comes to Rs.259,871,765/-

Maintenance of Monthly Receipts figures of Copying Agency

in respect of High Court and its three Benches, Civil and

Sessions/ATA Courts in the Punjab and Small Causes Court,

Lahore.

Dealt with matters regarding auction of durable articles,

places and shops, etc. in respect of Lahore High Court and its

three Benches, Sessions/Civil Courts and ATA Courts in the

Punjab and Small Causes Court, Lahore.

Achievements of 100% Reconciliation of Receipts figures in

respect of Lahore High Court, Lahore and its allied benches,

Sessions, Civil, ATA Courts and Small Causes Court.

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Maintenance of Monthly Returns of Revenue Deposits and

refund in respect of High Court and its three Benches, Civil

and Sessions Courts in the Punjab, Lahore.

The estimated Receipts for 2013-2014, revised estimated

Receipts for 2012-2013, actual receipts in the year 2012-2013

and percentage of recovery remained as under:-

Receipt Head

Annual Receipts

est imates for 2013 -14

Revised est imates of 2012 -13

Actual receipts 2012-13

% age o f Recover y

CO 2 6 01 -S a l e p ro c ee d s o f

u nc l a im e d a n d E sc h e a t e d P r o pe r t y

12518000 11380000 11753351 103.0%

CO 2 6 02 - Co u r t F e es R e a l i ze d

i n C as h 1634000 1486000 4428228 298.0%

CO 2 6 04 Ge n e r a l F e es ,

F i n es an d F o r f e i t u r es

218975000 199068000 200413240 100.6%

CO 2 6 09 Re c e i p t o f t h e O f f i c i a l R ec o r d

Ro om

330000 300000 317438 105.0%

CO 2 6 10 Re c ov e r i es o f Ov e r pa ym en ts

17790000 16173000 14905699 92.0%

CO 2 6 12 Co l l ec t i o n o f t h e p a ym e n ts

o f t h e s e rv i c es r en d e re d

276000 251000 208050 82.0%

CO 2 6 13 o t h e r s 29167000 26516000 27845759 105.0%

Grand Total 280690000 255174000 259871765 101.84%

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6.4.5. PURCHASE BRANCH:

Purchase Branch deals with purchasing of highly diversified

items i.e. machinery, furniture, I.T equipment, stationery and

general store Items.

For the year 2012-13, the procurement of following items

remained as under:-

Description Amount (Rs.)

I .T Equipment 9,258,886

Machinery & Equipment 14,139,504

Furniture & Fixtures 469,190

General Store art icles 14,338,716

Stat ionery 8,198,478

Total 46,404,774

The generators for the residences of Hon’ble Judges of

Administration Committee were purchased in order to ensure

uninterruptable supply of electricity to Hon’ble Judges.

One hundred laptops Core i3 were procured for distribution

amongst Judicial Officers who have rendered excellent

services and disposed of extra-ordinary number of cases.

New photocopier machines 20PPM and 30PPM were

purchased to facilitate the working of office.

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6.4.6. AUDIT AND ACCOUNTS CELL:

Audit & Accounts Cell in the Finance Wing is very important in

the sense that it examines and scrutinizes all the financial

transactions pertaining to this Court and entire District Judiciary

by means of Internal Audit as an endeavour to strengthen

internal controls. Performance of Audit & Accounts Cell during

the year under report remained as under:-

Conducted pre-payment scrutiny of all payments of non-salary component of current budget of the Lahore High Court (Principal Seat).

Held 11 Accounts Committee meetings including 06 DAC and 05 SDAC for discussion of 558 Audit Paras and got settled 423 paras out of them having 75 % success rate and recovery of Rs.630303/-, as under:

Nam e of D i s t r i c t D AC /S D AC P ar a s D i s c .

P ar a s P e n d .

P ar a s S e t t .

Re c o ve r y E f f ec t e d

Sheikhupura, Khanewa l , Okara (Sess ions Cour t ) and (Ci v i l Cour ts ) M.Garh, M.B.Din and A t tock

SD AC (10.01.13)

29 03 26 Ni l

Bahawalpur (Sess ions Cour t )

D AC (19.02.13)

44 04 40 89502

Rawalp ind i Bench & R.Y.Khan (Sess ions Cour t )

D AC (26.02.13) 70 05 65 206884

Okara (Ci v i l Cour ts ) D AC (26.03.13)

47 05 42 27118

At tock (S .Cour t & Kasur Ci v i l Cour t )

D AC (09.04.13)

55 10 45 106996

Rajanpur & M.Garh (Ci v i l Cour ts )

D AC (16.04.13)

63 16 47 28320

Mianwal i & D.G.Khan (Sess ions Cour t ) & Civ i l Cour ts Mul tan & Bahawalpur

D AC (03.07.13)

103 37 66 38137

Rawalp ind i & Lodhran (Ci v i l Cour ts )

SD AC (05.07.13)

35 07 28 18349

Jhe lum & Guj ra t (Sess ions Cour ts )

D AC (17.09.13)

50 19 31 67680

Layyah, Khanewal & Pakpat tan

SD AC (08.10.13)

31 11 20 47317

Sheikhupura, Bahawalpur & Sahiwal

SD AC (29.11.13)

29 16 13 No

Re c o ve r y

To tal 556 133 423 6 ,30,303

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Securitized Pension Cases and T.A/D.A bill of the Hon’ble

Judges & Officers/Officials of this Court.

Participated in the quarterly review meetings regarding

outstanding paras in the Finance Department, and Continued

submitting monthly progress report on Accounts Committees

and Audit Paras to the Finance Department, Government of

the Punjab.

Maintained Accounts of the discretionary grant of the Hon’ble

Chief Justice.

Maintained Accounts of the PJDF.

Carried out special assignment with regard to Deposit of

Securities and refund thereof of all Judicial Cases 4200

approximately instituted in this Court from 1990 to 2013. The

cell also carried out reconciliation of deposits with the Judicial

Branch.

Rendered opinion on financial and service matters.

6.4.7. TREASURY:

Treasury performed the following functions during the year under

review:-

Maintenance of DDO’s cash book of class-IV employees,

contingent staff, utility charges and expenditures on

contingencies, carried out reconciliation of accounts with

Treasury Officer, Lahore, Got increased the imprest amount from

Rs.200,000/- to Rs.500,000/- for catering the immediate

requirements, Custody of security amounts of litigants under the

order of the Court and got maximum adjustment of long-time

outstanding advances preferred by the High Court Treasury

through imprest amount.

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6.5. LEGISLATION WING:

Legislation Wing of this Court enjoys immense importance in the

administration of High Court and its main function is to revise the

High Court Rules & Orders as well as making amendments in the

First Schedule of Civil Procedure Code, 1908 according to needs

of the day. This Wing also plays a pivotal role for providing legal

opinion/guidance to different branches on various issues as and

when required.

During the year under review, the Legislation wing performed the

following legislative functions in consultation with the respective

departments.

PROPOSED AMENDMENTS PENDING BEFORE THE HON’BLE RULE COMMITTEE:

The matters relating to the amendments or making new rules in

High Court Rules and Orders. During the year under review, the

following rules/matters are pending before the Hon’ble Rule

Committee comprises:

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik Chairman Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan Member Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah Member

Revision of Chapter 10-C, High Court Rules and Orders Volume-V qua Lahore High Court Establishment (Appointment & Conditions of Service) Rules.

Request for creation of promotion channel of Computer Operators and Data Coordinators.

Magisterial powers of worthy Registrar, Lahore High Court, Lahore.

Revision of 9-A, High Court Rules & Orders, Volume-III.

Re-examination of objection memo dated 12.12.2005.

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Revision of Chapter 8, High Court Rules & Orders, Volume-IV regarding mentioning of certain provision of old Police and Pakistan Railway, rules relating to pre-partition.

Enhancement in the limit of Sheriff Petty Account (Amendment in Rule 35, Chapter 8, Part-D, High Court Rules & Order, Volume-II)

Formulation of Copying Agency Rules for District Judiciary and incorporation of the same by insertion of Part-G, Chapter 16, High Court Rules & Orders, Volume-IV

Printing of High Court Rules & Orders, Volume-VI

Case regarding consideration of All Type of Quota in the light of Observation of the Administration Committee

Insertion of new rules in Chapter 10-C for direct recruitment of Additional Registrar.

AMENDMENTS IN C.P.C. RULES:

During the year under review, following amendments in the first

schedule of the C.P.C. are pending before the Hon’ble C.P.C.

Rules Committee comprising:-

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah President

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Khan Member

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Mehmood Maqbool Bajwa Member

Mr. Jari Ul lah Khan, Advocate Member Mr. Jahangir A.Jhojha, Advocate Member Senior Civi l Judge, Lahore Member Addit ional Registrar (Legislat ion) Secretary

To rectify the existing contradiction regarding production of witnesses in Order XVI Rule 1 read with Order XVIII Rules 2 & 4 C.P.C.

Case regarding amendment in Rule 21 of Order VII and Rule 12 of Order VIII of the CPC, 1908 proposed by the Law & Justice Commission of Pakistan in its meeting held on 04.06.2011.

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Draft rules in respect of Section 89-A, CPC, 1908 and issuance of instructions in the form of Standard of Conduct for Neutrals (Arbitrators, Conciliators, Evaluators and Mediators) Rules, 2008 (ADR)

MATTERS PENDING BEFORE THE SUB-COMMITTEES:

A sub-committee comprising Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan is constituted to examine the representation of the staff Members of this Court for revival/restoration of explanation(c) of Rule 7(i)(a)(ii) of the Punjab Judicial Service Rules, 1994 regarding grant of permission to “Members of Establishment of Supreme Court of Pakistan, Lahore High Court and Courts subordinate to the Lahore High Court” for appearing in competitive examination for the post of Civil Judge-cum-Magistrate.

DRAFT AMENDMENTS WHICH ARE PENDING WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB FOR GRANT OF PREVIOUS APPROVAL:

Amendment in Proforma of Bond and Bail Bond appearing at Serial No.67 Page No.46, High Court Rules and Orders Volume-VI.

Amendment in Chapter 5-A, High Court Rules and Orders Volume-V regarding inspection of records.

Amendment in Government of the Punjab Rules of Business 1974 relating to Lahore High Court, Lahore.

Amendment in Sub-Section 3 of Section 123 of C.P.C.1908 qua the status of the Senior Member of the Committee Chairman/Chairperson of the Committee which constitutes amendments in the High Court Rules & Orders Volume 1 to VI.

Revision of Chapter 9-A, High Court Rules & Orders, Volume-III qua expenses to be paid to the complainants and witnesses appearing in the Criminal/Sessions Courts.

Amendment in Syllabus of Paper-III mentioned in Schedule II of the Punjab Civil Judges Departmental Examination Rules, 1991 proposed by the Hon’ble Mr. Justice (R) Khalil-ur-Rehman Khan, Consultant, Punjab Judicial Academy, Lahore.

Insertion of new rules in High Court Establishment (Appointment & Condition of Service) Rules qua modus operandi for the post of Additional Registrar.

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LEGISLATIVE FUNCTIONS PERFORMED:

Amendment in Rule-11, Chapter-2, Part-B, High Court Rules & Orders, Volume-II qua Annual Inspection of Wards by Courts.

Amendment in Rule 2(1)(i)(A) Chapter III, High Court Rules & Orders, Volume-V proposed by the Division Bench of this Court.

Revision of Chapter 7, Part F to K, High Court Rules and Orders Volume-IV.

Amendment in Punjab Judicial Service Rules, 1994.

Amendment in Syllabus of Paper-III mentioned in Schedule II of the Punjab Civil Judges Departmental Examination Rules, 1991 proposed by the Hon’ble Mr. Justice (R) Khalil-ur-Rehman Khan, Consultant, Punjab Judicial Academy, Lahore.

Amendment in Rule 5(iii), Chapter 12(b), High Court Rules & Orders, Volume-IV.

LEGAL OPINION GIVEN BY THE LEGISLATION WING ON THE FOLLOWING PROPOSITIONS:

Proposal/opinion to substitute the classes of Civil Judge i.e. Ist, 2nd & 3rd class with Class-I, Class-II and Class-III for the purpose of determining the pecuniary limits of jurisdiction exercisable by them.

Whether the benefit of financial up-gradation given by the parent department by way of in-situ promotion can be extended to the applicant namely Muhammad Asghar, Driver presently working in the Supreme Court in BPS-5 on deputation basis, and if it is so, then whether he will be entitled to receive the benefit of up-gradation during deputation period or on his repatriation to his parent department.

Whether lien of a Government/Civil Servant will remain intact in parent department even after two years of his absorption against a permanent post in the borrowing department or not?

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Whether the officer complained against namely Mr. Ghulam Mujaddid Rabbani (retired Additional Registrar) was entitled to avail 180 days leave encashment during his last year of service and the second is If the officer complained against was so entitled then whether after the implementation of the orders passed by the Hon’ble Chief Justice, sanctioning 180 days leave encashment in favour of Mr. Ghulam Mujaddid Rabbani (officer complained against), the amount of Rs.39,746/- overdrawn by him on account of encashment of L.P.R., can be got refunded from him at this belated stage?

On f inancial independence of judiciary

Whether this Court should continue asking the government in Finance Department for delegation of powers of ex-post facto sanction and powers of regularization to the Hon’ble Chief Justice;

Whether the High Court vests these powers in terms of Articles 175(3) coupled with Article 203 of the Constitution, as per contention remained hitherto in our correspondence with Finance Department in view of the concept of Financial Independence of Judiciary as adjudicated in Supreme Court’s judgment in Sharaf Faridi’s Case (PLD 1994 SC 105), and/or;

Whether some separate rules need to be framed for such financial powers of the Lahore High Court, Lahore and if yes, under what provision of law, these Rules could be framed.

Proposal qua making suitable amendments in the Punjab Civil & Sessions Courts Establishment (Miscellaneous Posts) Service Rules, 2005 for providing a promotion channel to the cadre of Stenographers working in the Subordinate judiciary.

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6.6. LIBRARY:

As its essential component, the august Lahore High Court has

been equipped with a Library which was established way back in

1866. In 1919, Library was elevated with an initial collection of

1000 books. With the rapid growth of knowledge, collection of

Library mounted to 3000 volumes in the year 1947 and from

1955 to 1969, it amounted to 100,000 books. By now the

collection of the Library are more than 100,000 volumes ranging

from Jurisprudence, Banking, Income Tax, Sales Tax and

International Law to Constitutional Law, etc. With the

establishment of benches at Rawalpindi, Multan & Bahawalpur in

the year 1981, libraries were established under the supervision of

Assistant Librarians. The books for these Benches were

purchased through special grants. The Library at the Principal

Seat is partly equipped with the digitalized environment having

necessary gadgets provided by the Federal Government under

Access to Justice Program.

The affairs of the Library are monitored by a Library Committee

comprising of the following Hon’ble Judges:

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sardar Tariq Masood Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah

Following officers are running affairs of the Library:-

Librarian Assistant Librarian

The following Reports and Law Journals are being purchased on

regular basis i.e., PLD (Pakistan Legal Decision), P.Cr.L.J

(Pakistan Criminal Law Journal), PLC (Pakistan Labour Cases),

PTD (Pakistan Tax Decision), SCMR (Supreme Court Monthly

Review), CLC (Civil Law Cases), MLD (Monthly Law Report),

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YLR (Yearly Law Report), CLD (Corporate Law Journal), PLJ

(Pakistan Law Journal), Tax (Taxation), PTCL, (Pakistan Tax &

Corporate Laws), PCTLR, (Pakistan Company & Tax Law

Report), NLR (National Law Reports), AC (Appeal Cases), CLC,

(Civil Law Judgments), Cr.LJ (Criminal Law Judgments), SCJ

(Supreme Court Judgments), TD (Tribunal Decisions), SD

(Shariat Decisions), UC (Unreported Cases), PSC(Crl.) (Pakistan

Supreme Court Cases-Crl.), PSC, (Pakistan Supreme Court

Cases), PCLR (Pakistan Current Civil Law Reports), P Cr.R

(Pakistan Current Criminal Rulings), PLR (Peshawar Law

Reports), KLR (Key Law Reports), LN (Law Notes), SBLR (Sindh

Balochistan Law Reports), SLR (Shariat Law Reports).

LIBRARY AUTOMATION/KOHA INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM (ILS):

KOHA Integrated Library System Software customized by

Pakistan Library Automation Group (PAKLAG) is used in the

library of this Court which facilitates the computerized library

record in the shape of CDs, DVDs, Books, Journals, etc. Some

major modules of the above said software such as acquisitions,

cataloging (fully operational in library), circulation control (fully

operational in library), serials management (fully operational in

library), online public access, catalogue (opac) (fully operational

in library), administration and system setup (fully operational in

library), and reporting (fully operational in library) are also used in

the library.

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CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION:

The latest international tools like Dewey Decimal Classification

(DDC) and Resources Description Access (RDA) are also

available for classification and cataloging purpose.

LIBRARY WEBSITE/OPAC:

The library can also be accessed online through its website

address i.e. library.lhc.gov.pk.

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY DIGITAL LIBRARY:

Institutional Repository Digital Library project is under process

after the perusal of Hon’ble Library Committee. The said

Institutional Repository Digital Library will be run with the help of

Pakistan Library Automation Group (PAKLAG). DSpace open

source software will be used for the said project.

MONTHLY LIBRARY NEWSLETTER:

With the approval of Hon’ble Library Committee, a monthly library

newsletter has been published and circulated amongst the

Hon’ble Judges, Librarian Supreme Court of Pakistan, Librarians

of all Pakistani High Courts and Assistant Librarians of Benches

of Lahore High Court.

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6.7. PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT WING:

Planning & Development Wing of this court is an essential

component of this Court. The wing stands upon the following

branches.

PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT BRANCH

BUILDINGS BRANCH

Planning and Development branch deals with the soft and

thematic planning assignments as Access to Justice Program.

Building Branch deals with the hard & physical reforms in the

building sector of this Court, as well as District judiciary,

encompassing repair, maintenance, construction, acquisition of

land, etc.

The Wing under discussion is headed by Addl. Registrar (P&D)

with the aid of the Deputy Registrar (P&D), Assistant Registrar

(P&D) and Assistant Registrar (Buildings) and supporting staff.

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6.7.1. PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT BRANCH:

Planning and Development Branch coordinates and

monitors development programs and activities under Access to

Justice Program. The categorical/respective achievements of the

planning and development branch during the year under review

are substantiated below:-

PROVISION OF GENERATORS FOR THE COURTS OF DISTRICT JUDICIARY OF PUNJAB:

Development work in the judicial sector has far reaching impact

on the performance of district judiciary. With the object of

providing congenial working conditions to the District Judiciary to

augment efficiency and standard of their work, unhampered by

electricity load-shedding, a scheme estimated @ RS 23.00

Million was initiated for purchasing of generators for all the

sessions and civil courts of Punjab. During the year 2013, 33-

Nos. sets of diesel generators in phase-II of the said scheme

were fully installed in the districts courts all over the Punjab.

TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR JUDGES AND LAWYERS THROUGH FUNDING FROM ACCESS TO JUSTICE DEVELOPMENT FUND (AJDF):

Realising the need of practical training for professional

development, the Hon’ble Chief Justice of Pakistan/Chairman,

Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan desired that training

sessions for Judicial Officers and lawyers be arranged at the

respective Judicial Academies of all the provinces of the Pakistan

in collaboration with LJCP. Planning and Development branch in

coordination with the Punjab Judicial Academy, arrange training

sessions for the training programme for Judicial Officers and

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lawyers through funding from Access to Justice Development

Fund (AJDF).

ACCESS TO JUSTICE DEVELOPMENT FUND (AJDF):

The subject Fund stands established in Law & Justice

Commission of Pakistan through promulgation of Law

Commission (Amendment) Ordinance, 2002 which is governed

by a high powered Governing Body under the Chairmanship of

Hon’ble Chief Justice of Pakistan. It has 7 windows/sub-funds,

Provincial Judicial Development Fund being its major window,

under which funds have been reserved specifically for capacity

building and up-lifting of sub-ordinate Judiciary in the following

fields:-

Automation of Courts Establishment of Information Kiosk Court infra-structure; and Court related amenities to the litigant public

At present, fund amounting to approximately Rs. 11,75,62,983/-

is available under the PJDF, which is planned to be used for the

automation of the courts of the district judiciary all over the

Punjab. For this purpose, matter was referred to IT wing of this

court for formulating a scheme qua automation of courts of the

district judiciary all over the Punjab under the guidance of an IT

Committee comprising:-

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah.

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu. The process of formulation of scheme for automation of courts is

in progress.

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In order to make transparent and effective use of the said Fund,

a fund management committee was constituted by the Hon’ble

Chief Justice comprising:-

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Khwaja Imtiaz Ahmad. (Chairman)

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik.(Member)

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sardar Tariq Masood. (Member)

OPERATIONALIZATION OF SMALL CLAIMS & MINOR OFFENCES COURTS ORDINANCE-2002:

Consequent upon decision taken by the National Judicial Policy

Making Committee, while announcing the Judicial Policy-2009,

and under approval of the Hon’ble Admin. Judge, AJP, this office

is assisting the Authority for effecting monitoring of

implementation of the subject Ordinance by collecting quarterly

statements from all District & Sessions Judges of the province.

Some of the statistics to this effect have already been presented

to NJPMC through Coordinator (NJP) of this Court.

CONSTITUTION AND FUNCTION OF DISTRICT LEGAL EMPOWERMENT COMMITTEES:

The subject Committees stand constituted all over the Punjab

under the chairmanship of the D&SJ concerned which cater to

free legal aid to deserving litigants pursuing their cases in the

District judiciary. It is worthwhile to mention here that the

Committees under discussion draw funds from Access to Justice

Development Fund Window viz. Legal Empowerment, being

managed by Law & Justice Commission. The Law & Justice

Commission released fund amounting to Rs 2,00,000/- for each

District legal Empowerment Committee all over the Punjab

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through this court during the year 2013 for provision of free legal

aid to the deserving litigants.

MONITORING OF PROJECTS FUNDED BY ACCESS TO JUSTICE DEVELOPMENT FUND:

One of the seven windows of the subject Fund provides for

sponsorship of projects in the legal and social domain to be

undertaken by NGOs to promote legal awareness. In this regard,

project evaluations and monitoring of various Organizations are

being done by this Court through the D&SJ concerned as per

modus operandi set-out by Law & Justice Commission.

PROJECTS FOR UNDERDEVELOPED REGIONS TO BE SPONSORED BY LAW & JUSTICE COMMISSION:

One of the windows of Access to Justice Development Fund

namely, sponsorship of projects relating to under developed

regions reserves financial resources for the far-flung and ignored

areas for taking up projects in social and legal sectors. Recently,

pursuant to the decision of the Governing Body, Access to

Justice Development Fund released funds amounting to

Rs.37,233,038/- (Rupees thirty seven million two hundred thirty

three thousand and thirty eight only)as share amount of this

Court which were distributed amongst the learned District &

Sessions Judges of 08-classified under-developed

Districts/Regions namely Attock, Bahawalnagar, Bhakkar, D.G.

Khan, Jhang, Multan, Mianwali, and Khushab on the basis of cost

estimate of already submitted project proposals with the

direction that the amount be expended by maintaining proper

accounts on the areas mentioned in clause(9)of rule 10 of the

Access to Justice Development Fund Rules 2002.

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PREPARATION OF ANNUAL REPORT OF LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE:

In addition to performing above said assignments/tasks, the

planning and development branch also prepared and designed

Annual Report of Lahore High Court, Lahore.

GRANT OF 50% ENHANCEMENT IN THE EXISTING JUDICIAL ALLOWANCE AND 50% AD-HOC ALLOWANCE-2010 IN RESPECT OF THE EMPLOYEES OF LAHORE HIGH COURT, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND STAFF OF DISTRICT JUDICIARY IN PUNJAB: Pursuant to enhancement of grant of 50% Adhoc relief by the

Prime Minister of Pakistan at the uniform rate of basic pay and

judicial allowance to the staff of the Superior Judiciary w.e.f.

1.7.2010. and in compliance of the decision of National Judicial

(Policy Making) Committee, Islamabad, in its meeting held on 8th

June, 2013 qua grant of Adhoc allowance @ 50% of existing

basic pay to the establishment of Lahore High Court including

District Judiciary and their staff w.e.f 01-07-2010, P&D Branch

continuously is following up of the matter with the Finance

Department, Government of the Punjab, Lahore for grant of the

above said allowances/benefit.

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6.7.2. BUILDINGS BRANCH:

Buildings branch is a key component of the Planning &

Development Wing which is responsible for construction,

repairing and renovation of buildings of this Court as well as

Districts and Sessions/Civil Courts, allied facilities and Judicial

Officers’ residences. It determines the requirements of Judiciary,

acquires state land, and prepares schemes for approval and

execution through the funds provided by the Government. It has,

by and large, improved the working environment of Judicial

Officers and staff and enhanced their capacity to provide justice

to the people with peace of mind. In this regard, 156 construction

schemes were completed during the year 2013 and work on 147

schemes for the construction of courts and residences, etc. is in

progress. The details are reflected below:-

DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES OF JUDICIARY COMPLETED DURING 2013:

Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

1 Construction of Bakhshi Khana at Civil Courts at Pindigheb, district Attock.

2.342

2 Construction of Bakhshi Khana at Civil Courts Hassanabdal, district Attock.

3.400

3 Construction of women litigant shed in Civil Courts at Attock

1.006

4 Construction of women litigant shed in Civil Courts at Jand, District Attock

1.006

5 Construction of women litigant shed in Civil Courts at Pindigheb, District Attock

1.006

6 Construction of Boundary Wall around Sessions Courts Complex Attock

1.842

7 Construction of Boundary Wall around Civil Courts at Fatehjang, District Attock

0.702

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

8 Construction of Boundary Wall around Civil Courts Complex Hassanabdal District Attock

0.511

9 Construction of Boundary Wall around Civil Courts Complex at Pindigheb District Attock.

2.097

10 Construction of Boundary Wall around Civil Courts Complex at Jand, District Attock.

1.479

11 Provision of Pumping & boring in Civil Judge residences / Judicial Colony at Bahawalnagar

0.810

12 Construction of Judges Houses and Suites at Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench, Bahawalpur

47.459

13 Provision of additional MEPCO connection at newly constructed Judges Residences at Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench, Bahawalpur

0.908

14 Provision of anti-termite in the Judicial Record Room of Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench, Bahawalpur

0.134

15 Construction of Store & Cycle Stand in the Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench, Bahawalpur

1.380

16 Providing and fixing of Benches of steel structure frame and plastic seats in Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench, Bahawalpur

0.162

17 Providing and fixing of Angle Iron File Racks in the Record Room in Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench, Bahawalpur

1.335

18 Construction of Female Litigants Shed in District Courts at Bahawalpur

1.003

19 Construction of Boundary Wall around Civil and Sessions Court at Bahawalpur

2.057

20

Construction of Courts: 1 for AD&SJ, 3 Nos. for Civil Judges along with Bakhshi Khana, Litigant Shed, Public Lavatories, Boundary Wall, Gate and Gate Pillars at Hasilpur, District Bahawalpur

35.853

21 Construction of Garage in Sessions Judge Court at Bhakkar

0.344

22 Construction of 2 Nos. Toilets at Civil Court Darya Khan, District Bhakkar

0.344

23 Raising of Boundary Wall, construction of Guard Room, Wicket Gate with Main Entrance Gate in Judicial Colony Bhakkar

1.466

24 Raising of Boundary Wall including providing / fixing Steel Jangla around Additional Sessions Court & Civil Court at Kallur Kot, District Bhakkar

2.295

25 Purchase of land measuring 66 kanals 13 marlas for construction of Judicial Complex at Darya Khan, District Bhakkar.

6.666

26 Construction of Boundary Wall around the Civil & Sessions Courts at Bhakkar.

4.598

27 Construction 1 Court for AD&SJ, 2 for Civil Judges, 49.846

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

bakhshi khana, bar room, litigant shed and public toilets at Judicial Complex Talagang, District Chakwal.

28 Construction of 2 Nos. Civil Judge residences at Talagang, district Chakwal

8.659

29 Construction of one Court for AD&SJ and one for Civil Judge at Chakwal

8.831

30 Construction of 2 Nos. Civil Judges Courts at Talagang, district Chakwal

7.855

31 Construction of Boundary Wall around Sessions & Civil Courts, district Chakwal

1.449

32 Construction of Public Toilet Block in Sessions Courts Chiniot

0.874

33 Fixing of Iron Racks in the old Record Room of Sessions Courts Chiniot

0.434

34 Construction of Bar Room, Canteen and Mosque at Sessions Court, Dera Ghazi Khan.

9.942

35 Construction / Raising of Boundary Wall in Judicial Complex at D.G. Khan

2.072

36 Construction of residences for Judicial Officers at Jaranwala, District Faisalabad.

50.676

37 Construction of dispensary at Bar premises of District Bar Association, Faisalabad.

2.791

38 Construction of Judicial Complex at Samundari, District Faisalabad

27.682

39 Construction of mosque in Sessions Court Complex, Faisalabad

2.486

40 Construction of Judicial Complex at Ferozewala, District Sheikhupura

35.000

41 Construction of 8 Nos. Civil Courts in Sessions Court Complex Gujranwala.

29.951

42 Construction of Boundary Wall, Jangla, Raiser Wire and 2 Nos. Guard Room in Sessions and Civil Courts, Gujranwala

2.474

43 Provision of OHR 10000 Gallons in Sessions Courts Complex, Gujrat

3.989

44 Construction of residences: 1 for AD&SJ and 3 for Civil Judges, boundary wall, gate and gate pillars at Ahmadpur Sial, District Jhang.

13.698

45 Construction of Courts: 1 for AD&SJ, 3 for Civil Judges, litigant shed , Bakhshi Khana, toilet block, boundary wall, gate & gate pillars at Ahmadpur Sial, District Jhang

15.767

46 Security Arrangements in Judicial Colony at Jhang 2.932

47 Raising of Boundary Wall and fixing of barbed wire in Judicial Complex at Ahmadpur Sial, District Jhang

0.668

48 Providing and Laying of new electric wiring for air conditioners in Session and Civil Courts at Jhang

3.217

49 Replacement of old Electric Wiring in Civil Courts at Jhang 1.450

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

50 Providing and Fixing Barbed Wire on Boundary Walls etc.-Security Measures in Judicial Complex / Court Premises at District Jhang

0.874

51 Improvement /Renovation of Session Court at Jhelum 6.740

52 Construction of Women Litigant Sheds in existing Civil and Sessions Courts at Jhelum

3.493

53 Raising of Boundary Wall with iron spikes at Civil Courts Jhelum

0.803

54 Construction of Boundary Wall around Civil / Sessions Courts Complex, Kasur

1.639

55 Provision of Sui Gas Geezers, Heaters and Lamps at Judicial Colony, Kasur

0.465

56 Acquisition of land measuring 05 kanals 09 marlas for proper entrance/approach to Judicial Complex at Pattoki, District Kasur

1.129

57 Construction of Check Posts for police guards on main gates of Judicial Complexes Khanewal, Kabirwala, Mian Channu and Jahanian.

2.146

58 Construction of Bar Room at Kabirwala, District Khanewal 5.412

59 Construction of Boundary Wall along with gate and gate pillars for security purpose around the Civil & Sessions Courts at Jauharabad, District Khushab

5.928

60 Provision of Sui Gas in Civil & Sessions Courts at Jauharabad, district Khushab

1.389

61 Addition/alteration to Aiwan-e-Adal Lahore (Provision of electric wiring for installation of new air conditioners in Court Rooms)

5.777

62 Construction of double storey mosque in the premises of Lahore High Court, Lahore

13.966

63 Raising and repair of Boundary Wall of Sessions Courts, Lahore

5.752

64 Addition/alteration to Lahore High Court, Lahore (open area of parking shed of cycle stand)

0.727

65 Addition/alteration to Cantt. Courts Lahore 5.168

66 Addition / alteration and renovation of the Court Room of Hon'ble Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah

2.297

67 Addition/alteration to Lahore High Court, Lahore (Replacement of M.S. Jangla Admin Block and P/F of Steel Ladder in 8 Nos. Courts Block)

0.282

68 Addition/alteration to Aiwan-e-Adal, Lahore (Dangerous Sun Shade in Block A&B at 52' above Ground Level)

1.333

69 Addition/alteration to Lahore High Court, Lahore (Construction of Bathrooms of Rooms No.24 & 25)

0.282

70

Addition/alteration to Lahore High Court, Lahore {Provision / installation of Token Machine and Cable Tray in Urgent Cell, Provision of M.S Grill on Boundary Wall as well as Renovation of the Office of D&SJ (I&R/NJP)}

1.060

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

71 Addition / alteration in Judicial Complex, Lahore (Phase-I) – Provision of Steel Pipe, Railing in Stairs of Additional District & Sessions Judges Block.

0.326

72

Addition/alteration to Lahore High Court, Lahore (Partition of Record Room of Commercial Branch for use of Budget Branch & Repair of Khaprail Tile roofing Judges Courts—Sloppy Roof)

0.499

73 Laying of Asphalt in front of newly constructed Masjid in Lahore High Court, Lahore

0.884

74 Providing and fixing 1/2 cusec turbine and OHR 10000 Gallon capacity in Judicial Colony at Layyah

4.565

75 Construction of Guard Room in old Sessions House at Layyah

0.895

76 Repair/renovation of Camp Office in old Sessions House at Layyah

0.699

77 Providing and fixing of Security Razor Wire 2’ dia (spiral type) in new Sessions House at Layyah

0.542

78 Provision of SOP-Security measures in Judicial Complex / Court premises Zero Tolerance Policy at Layyah

1.058

79 Construction of Boundary Wall separating Judicial Complex from the area of lawyers chambers, District Layyah

0.859

80 Construction of Guard Room in front of Civil & Sessions Court at Layyah

0.538

81 Construction of women litigant shed in Judicial Complex Dunyapur, District Lodhran

1.084

82 Construction of women litigant shed in Judicial Complex Lodhran

1.030

83 Construction of Bar Room and Lavatory Block in Civil Courts at Karor Pacca, District Lodhran

3.516

84 Provision of missing facilities in Judicial Colony Dunyapur, District Lodhran

4.066

85 Construction of Canteen in Judicial Complex at Lodhran 2.408

86 Raising of Boundary Wall 2' Height at Judicial Complex Dunyapur, District Lodhran

0.496

87 Raising of Boundary Wall 2' Height at Judicial Complex Lodhran

1.495

88 Spreading of tuff tiles from main gate to Staff Guest House at Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, Multan

3.203

89 Provision of Razor Cut Wire on existing Boundary Wall of Hon’ble Judges Rest House, Gulgasht Colony, Multan

1.243

90 Provision of 100 Steel Racks in the Record Room of Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, Multan

1.754

91 Provision/installation of Benches in the premises of Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, Multan

0.327

92 Installation of Fiber Glass Shed from corridor adjacent to the High Court Bar Association Multan to the stairs of

0.251

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

Court Room No.2, Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, Multan

93 Installation of Ceiling Fans in the verandahs of Court Wing of Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, Multan

0.192

94 Provision & installation of Goldamatic Pump at Judges Rest House, Multan

0.165

95 Addition/alteration to Lahore High Court Bar Association Multan Bench Multan

1.788

96 Construction of Caretaker residence in the Hon'ble Judges Rest House, Gulgasht Colony, Multan

1.720

97 Reconstruction of existing Mosque at Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, Multan

4.955

98 Remodeling of Boundary Wall of Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, Multan

2.671

99 Raising and new construction of Boundary Wall in Bakhshi Khana/Judicial Lockup at Alipur, District Muzaffargarh

0.238

100 Provision of security arrangements in Sessions & Civil Courts at Nankana Sahib

1.074

101 Addition/alteration to Civil Courts at District Nankana Sahib (Installation of split AC 2 ton capacity)

0.182

102 Provision of racks in Record Room at Sessions Court Nankana Sahib

2.160

103 Construction of Women Litigant Sheds in Sessions Court at Nankana Sahib

1.254

104 Construction of Women Litigant Sheds in Civil Court at Nankana Sahib

1.254

105 Addition/alteration in Judicial Officers' residences at Narowal (Provision of Car Shed, Servant Room, Guard Room etc.)

2.016

106 Establishment of new Additional District & Sessions Judge Court and Civil Courts in old Rest House at Zafarwal, District Narowal

1.522

107 Addition/alteration to Judicial Officers' Residences at Narowal - Provision of water supply System

0.878

108 Construction of Guard Room at District & Sessions Judge Residence at Narowal

1.384

109 Addition/alteration to Civil & Sessions Court Complex at Narowal - Provision of water supply system

0.696

110 Addition/alteration to Judicial Colony Okara 0.340

111 Addition/alteration to residences in Judicial Colony Depalpur, District Okara

0.349

112 Addition/alteration in D&SJ Court (Committee Room) at Okara

1.548

113 Addition/alteration in D&SJ Court (Provision of Power Wiring Services) at Okara

0.900

114 Provision of Fiber Glass Car Parking Shed in Judicial 0.476

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

Complex Okara

115 Addition/alteration to Judicial Complex Renala Khurd (Provision of Fiber Glass Car Parking Shed and Power Wiring), District Okara

1.646

116 Addition/alteration to the Courts at Depalpur (Provision of Power Wiring), District Okara

0.219

117 Construction of Judicial Officers and Officials Residences at Pakpattan

21.291

118 Construction of women litigant shed in Civil & Sessions Courts at Arifwala, District Pakpattan

1.053

119 Construction of Boundary Wall around Civil and Sessions Courts at Pakpattan

2.384

120 Construction of Toilet Block in Sessions Courts Complex at Pakpattan

0.779

121 Construction of Boundary Wall around Civil and Sessions Courts at Arifwala, District Pakpattan

1.110

122 Conversion of old Record Room of Sessions Courts Pakpattan into Conference Room

1.166

123 Construction of Bar Room, Library and Mosque in the Judicial Complex Khanpur, district Rahim Yar Khan.

12.865

124 Renovation/improvement of Waiting Shed for Women at Judicial Courts at Tehsil Liaqatpur, District Rahimyar Khan

0.121

125 Construction of Boundary Wall with gate and gate pillars at Judicial Court Tehsil Liaqatpur, District Rahim Yar Khan

1.460

126 Reconstruction of Boundary Wall around Judicial Officers Residences (Colony) Tehsil Liaqatpur, District Rahim Yar Khan

2.352

127 Construction of residence for AD&SJ at Rojhan, district Rajanpur.

5.843

128 Construction of Boundary Wall of old Court Tehsil Jampur, District Rajanpur

0.344

129 Construction of Judicial Complex at Kahuta, District Rawalpindi

58.042

130 Improvement/renovation of Civil Judges Rest House Murree, District Rawalpindi

3.576

131 Extension of existing Car Parking at Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, Rawalpindi

2.189

132 Construction of Staff Rest House, Staff Quarters, Police Barracks and Car Parking at Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, Rawalpindi.

35.387

133 Construction of Meeting Room, Boundary Wall, Camp Office with Guard Room and provision of Walk Way in Judicial Complex Sahiwal

0.498

134 Provision of Water Supply and construction of Boundary Wall

around Judicial Complex Chichawatni, District Sahiwal 0.547

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

135 Construction of Women Litigant Sheds in Court Complex at Sahiwal

1.027

136 Construction / Raising of Boundary Wall of Courts Complex at Chichawatni, District Sahiwal

0.745

137 Construction / Raising of Boundary Wall around District Courts at Sahiwal

4.204

138 Re-lowering of Turbine and Construction of Pumping Chamber at Judicial Complex at Chichawatni, District Sahiwal

0.796

139 Construction of Boundary Wall around Judicial Officers Colony at Sargodha

5.848

140 Addition/alteration & improvement of Residence No.B-03 at Sarwar Shaheed Road District Sheikhupura

0.659

141 Addition/alteration & improvement of Residence No.A-01 at Shami Road District Sheikhupura

0.606

142 Addition/alteration & improvement of Residence No.B-08 at Judicial Colony District Sheikhupura

0.244

143 Construction of Overhead Passage between Civil Court Block at Sheikhupura

0.495

144 Construction of Canteen in Judicial Complex at Sheikhupura

0.926

145 Addition/alteration to District & Sessions Judge Court at Sheikhupura (Iron Racks of old Record Room)

1.880

146 Provision of barbed wire on the Boundary Wall etc. at Judicial Officers residences at Daska, District Sialkot (Security Measures)

2.251

147 Installation of 25 KVA Transformer for smooth supply of electricity to the Additional District & Sessions Judges Courts at Pasrur, District Sialkot

0.275

148 Construction of Courts for Judicial Officers at Toba Tek Singh

30.000

149 Construction of Security Room, Posts and provision of barbed wire on Boundary Wall etc. in Judicial Complex at Toba Tek Singh

0.725

150 Construction/Raising of Boundary Wall of Civil Courts Complex Kamalia, District Toba Tek Singh

1.263

151 Dismantling of old damaged wall and construction of new Boundary Wall with barbed wire and street lights at Gojra, District T.T.Singh

0.683

152 Construction of tilted / fallen Boundary Wall of Judicial Officers' Colony at Vehari

4.967

153 Construction of women litigant shed in Judicial Complex Burewala, District Vehari

1.013

154 Construction of women litigant shed in Judicial Complex at Vehari

1.013

155 Provision of sui gas in Sessions/Civil Courts Complex at Vehari

2.653

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

156 Construction of Boundary Wall around Civil and Sessions Judges Court at Burewala, District Vehari

2.347

ONGOING DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES OF JUDICIARY DURING 2013

Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

1 Construction of Court and Residence of AD&SJ at Pindigheb, District Attock

21.754

2 Construction of Court and Residence of AD&SJ at Sub-Division Jand, District Attock

23.307

3 Construction of Residence for AD&SJ and Civil Judge at Tehsil Chishtian, District Bahawalnagar

15.876

4 Construction of Residence for Civil Judge at Tehsil Haroonabad, District Bahawalnagar

6.963

5 Construction of Court for AD&SJ and Civil Judge at Tehsil Chishtian, District Bahawalnagar

11.884

6 Construction of Residences: 1 for AD&SJ and 3 for Civil Judges at Hasilpur, District Bahawalpur

34.306

7 Construction of Bakhshi Khana in the Court premises at Yazman, District Bahawalpur

6.480

8 Installation of Air Conditioners in the Court Rooms at Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench, Bahawalpur

2.601

9 Construction/expansion of Masjid at Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench, Bahawalpur

8.303

10 Construction of Bar Room and Mosque at Judicial Complex Hasilpur, District Bahawalpur

10.437

11 Construction of Bar Room and Mosque at Judicial Complex Khairpur Tamewali, District Bahawalpur

10.780

12 Construction of Court and Residence for AD&SJ in Judicial Complex Khairpur Tamewali, District Bahawalpur

20.206

13 Construction of Bar Room, Mosque and Lavatory Block in Judicial Complex Yazman, District Bahawalpur

12.780

14 Construction of Halls at First Floor of existing Record Room in Session Court at Bahawalpur

3.912

15 Addition/ alteration to District Bar old Library at Bahawalpur

1.200

16 Providing and fixing Razor Cut Fencing Wire on Boundary Wall of Residential Complex of Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench, Bahawalpur

0.446

17 Construction of Security Wall front side with Razor Cut Fencing Wire complete with 02 Nos. Watch

3.752

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

Towers/Guard Room in Boundary Wall of Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench, Bahawalpur

18 Construction of Residences for Judicial Staff and Boundary Wall at Bhakkar

54.115

19 Construction of residence for AD&SJ at Mankera, District Bhakkar

7.115

20 Construction of 2 Nos. residences for Civil Judges at Kallur Kot, District Bhakkar

7.301

21 Construction of 2 Nos. AD&SJ Courts and 2 Nos. Civil Courts at Bhakkar

15.742

22 Construction of 1 No. Civil Court at Kallur Kot, District Bhakkar

3.436

23 Construction of 1 No. AD&SJ Court at Mankera, District Bhakkar

6.680

24 Provision of Sui Gas connections to Sessions House and Judicial Colony at Bhakkar

1.873

25 Construction of Judicial Complex Darya Khan, District Bhakkar

147.368

26 Construction of Bar Room in Judicial Complex at Kallur Kot, District Bhakkar

4.749

27 Construction of Boundary Wall with Gate and Gate Pillars around Civil Judges Residences at Mankera, District Bhakkar

3.686

28 Addition/alteration to Sessions House at Bhakkar 1.486

29 Construction of one residence for AD&SJ and 2 Nos. Residences for Civil Judge at Chakwal

17.254

30 Rehabilitation of old House in Judicial Colony, Chakwal 6.937

31 Construction of Women Litigant Shed in Sessions & Civil Courts, District Chakwal

2.500

32 Construction of Judicial Complex at Bhowana, District Chiniot

124.222

33 Construction of Litigant Shed and Record Room in Sessions Court Complex at Chiniot

5.919

34 Construction of new Sessions House at Faisalabad 11.449

35 Construction of 6 Nos. 2 Bed Room flat type multi storeyed residences i/c stair case for Civil Judges in Judicial Colony, Faisalabad

19.339

36 Construction of 6 Nos. Courts for Judicial Officers in the Sessions Court Complex at Faisalabad

32.338

37 Construction of Record Room in District Courts Complex Faisalabad

34.461

38 Construction of Mosque & Canteen in the Judicial Complex at Jaranwala, District Faisalabad

6.458

39 Construction of Judicial Officers' and Staff Residences at Session Court Complex Gujranwala 57.679

40 Construction of Judicial Complex at Wazirabad, District Gujranwala

379.598

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

41 Construction of Staff Office & extension of Record Room in Sessions Courts Complex, Gujranwala

7.474

42 Construction of Judicial Complex Sarai Alamgir, District, Gujrat

106.454

43 Construction of 3 Nos. Residences for Civil Judges and 1 No. Residence for AD&SJ at Kharian, District Gujrat

18.225

44 Construction of 4 Nos. Civil Courts at Kharian, District Gujrat

28.026

45 Construction of New Record Room at Sub Division Kharian, District Gujrat

10.572

46 Provision of Sui Gas in Judicial Complex Pindi Bhattian, District Hafizabad

6.665

47 Construction of 3 Nos. Garages in Civil Judge residences in Judicial Complex Ahmedpur Sial, District Jhang

0.949

48 Construction of Bakhshi Khana and Record Room at District Courts Jhang

3.647

49 Construction of Judicial Complex (Residential Portion) at Pind Dadan Khan, district Jhelum

84.127

50 Construction of Judicial Complex (Residential Portion) at Sohawa, district Jhelum.

78.576

51 Construction of Judicial Complex (Non Residential Portion) at Pind Dadan Khan, district Jhelum

58.530

52 Construction of Judicial Complex (Non Residential Portion) at Sohawa, district Jhelum

48.771

53 Construction of Bakhshi Khana in Sessions Courts at Jhelum

9.160

54 Construction of Boundary Wall of existing Sessions Court at Jhelum

7.305

55 Construction of Record Room in Sessions Courts at Jhelum

13.806

56 Construction of two Courts of AD&SJ in Sessions Courts Jhelum and two new Public Toilets apiece in Civil & Sessions Courts Complexes at Jhelum

17.309

57 Construction of 1 No. Court for Senior Civil Judge, 4 Nos. Civil Courts and Bar Room at Judicial Complex Jhelum

45.698

58 Addition / alteration to Judicial Rest House at Jhelum (Improvement & Renovation)

2.177

59 Construction of Judicial Complex at Pattoki, District Kasur

261.213

60 Construction of 4 Courts for Additional District & Sessions Judges at Kasur

44.016

61 Construction of Boundary Wall between Judicial Residential Colony & Lawyers Chamber at Judicial Complex Chunian, District Kasur

1.037

62 Construction of Rest House, Single Suite Accommodation 4 Nos., Record Room, Servant Quarter, Guard Room and

20.109

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

Boundary Wall at Additional Judicial Complex Khanewal

63 Construction of 1 residence for Additional District & Sessions Judge at Tehsil Kabirwala, District Khanewal

7.106

64 Construction of 4 Nos. Civil Courts at Kabirwala, district Khanewal

15.052

65 Construction of 4 Nos. Civil Courts at Mian Channu, district Khanewal

16.252

66 Construction of Mosque in Judicial Complex at Kabirwala, District Khanewal

4.780

67 Rehabilitation of sewerage system at Sessions Court Khanewal

2.033

68 Construction of Session House (Grade-21) Khushab at Jauharabad

21.977

69 Construction of Judicial Complex at Noorpur Thal, District Khushab

59.090

70 Providing Watch Towers, Guard Room and Rooms for wall through gate - Security arrangements in Judicial Complex at Jauharabad, District Khushab

1.448

71 Construction of Judicial Complex at Lahore (Phase-II). 772.600

72 Addition/alteration in Lahore High Court, Lahore (Preservation of Old Buildings [Eastern Block])

44.756

73 Construction of Court Block, Record Room, Office Room, Committee Room, Nazarat Room etc. in the premises of Model Town Courts, Lahore

40.886

74 Upgradation and Renovation of old Library of Lahore High Court, Lahore

5.309

75 Addition/alteration to Judicial Complex Phase-I Lahore (Provision of Security Measures)

7.088

76

Addition / alteration to Lahore High Court, Lahore (Construction of Foundation Pad and Earthing for installation of Generator at Hon'ble Judges' Residences)

0.171

77 Construction of Residential Accommodation for Superintendent of Sessions Court at Layyah

3.411

78 Construction of Mosque at Court Complex at Layyah 2.818

79 Construction of Residences for Judicial Officers at Lodhran

99.725

80 Construction of Bar Room at Judicial Complex Lodhran 8.233

81 Construction of Servant Quarter for Chowkidar, Sessions Court Lodhran

1.190

82 Construction of Floor and Washrooms in the premises of Judicial Complex Dunyapur, District Lodhran

1.179

83 Extension of Record Room at Judicial Complex Lodhran 6.342

84 Construction of Judicial Rest House i/c 2 Nos residences for AD&SJ and 2 for Civil Judges at District Mandi Bahauddin

53.472

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

85 Construction of Bar Room within the Judicial Complex at Phalia, district Mandi Bahauddin

6.149

86 Construction of Judicial Complex Malakwal, District Mandi Bahauddin

170.020

87 Addition / alteration to Judicial Complex at Mandi Bahauddin (Improvement / Renovation)

2.466

88 Addition / alteration to Judicial Complex at Phalia, District Mandi Bahauddin (Earth filling in Lawn and Construction of Supporting Wall)

1.744

89 Construction of Residence of Senior Civil Judge at Mianwali

6.786

90 Construction of Senior Civil Judge Court at Mianwali 15.067

91

Construction of Wall Watch Tower on Boundary Wall, Security Staff Room and Walk Through Gate Room (Security Measures) in Judicial Complex Piplan, District Mianwali

2.105

92

Construction of Wall Watch Tower on Boundary Wall, Security Staff Room and Walk Through Gate Room (Security Measures) in Civil and Sessions Courts at Mianwali

2.105

93

Construction of Wall Watch Tower on Boundary Wall, Security Staff Room and Walk Through Gate Room (Security Measures) in Judicial Complex Isa Khel, District Mianwali

1.602

94 Construction of Judicial Complex at Multan 545.500

95 Construction of mosque in Judicial Complex at Jalalpur Pirwala, district Multan

3.201

96 Renovation / Replacement of disintegrated RCC roof of Office Block at Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, Multan

32.740

97 Construction of Record Room in new Judicial Complex at Multan

29.272

98 Construction of Judicial Complex Shujabad, District Multan

175.884

99 Construction Court and Residence for AD&SJ, 2 Civil Courts and 1 Residence for Civil Judge at Jalalpur Pirwala, District Multan

42.337

100 Construction of mosque in the Judicial Complex at Alipur, district Muzaffargarh

3.211

101 Construction of Judicial Complex at Muzaffargarh 640.277

102 Construction of Judicial Complex at Kot Addu, District Muzaffargarh

163.296

103 Construction of Public Toilets in Judicial Complex Kot Addu, District Muzaffargarh

0.572

104 Construction of Judicial Complex at Shahkot, district Nankana Sahib

113.203

105 Construction of Judicial Complex at Sangla Hill, District Nankana Sahib 164.599

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Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

106 Acquiring of Land/ Construction of Judicial Complex Nankana Sahib

28.972

107 Construction of Official Residences for Judicial Officers at Shakargarh, District Narowal

21.892

108 Construction of Judicial Complex at Zafarwal, District Narowal

86.288

109 Construction of Bar Room at Shakargarh, District Narowal

6.486

110 Establishment of Rest House for Judicial Officers at Narowal

14.554

111 Construction of Record Room in the Sessions Courts Complex at Narowal

18.388

112 Construction of Judicial Complex at Renala Khurd, District Okara

102.053

113 Construction of residence for Superintendent at Pakpattan

3.614

114 Construction of 2 Nos. AD&SJJ Residences and 1 No. Civil Judge Residence at Arifwala, District Pakpattan

25.067

115 Construction of 2 Nos. AD&SJJ Courts and 1 No. Civil Judge Court at Arifwala, District Pakpattan

17.831

116 Construction of Residences for Judicial Officers at Sadiqabad, District Rahim Yar Khan

46.087

117 Construction of Judicial Complex at Sadiqabad, district Rahim Yar Khan

66.459

118 Construction of Public Lavatories in Sessions Court premises at Rahim Yar Khan

1.050

119 Construction of Court for AD&SJ at Rojhan, district Rajanpur

8.685

120 Construction of Sessions House at Rajanpur 9.393

121 Construction of Guard Room at main gate at Sessions Court Complex Rajanpur

1.317

122 Construction of Litigant Shed and Public Toilets at Civil Courts Complex Rajanpur

3.158

123 Construction of Bar Room in Court Complex at Rojhan, District Rajanpur

5.901

124 Construction of residences for Judicial Officers at Jampur, District Rajanpur

68.855

125 Construction of residences for Judicial Officers at Kahuta, District Rawalpindi.

92.955

126 Construction of Judicial Complex at Kallar Syedan, District Rawalpindi

67.549

127 Addition / alteration in the Judges' Staff Hostel and Police Barracks at Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, Rawalpindi

4.078

128 Construction of Residences for Judicial Officers at Kallar Syedan, District Rawalpindi 75.037

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Sr. No.

Name of Scheme

Approved Cost

(Rs. in Million)

129 Construction of 30 Residences for Judicial Officers at Civil Lines, Rawalpindi

240.080

130 Installation of Two Elevators in new Judicial Complex Rawalpindi

75.037

131 Construction of Litigant Shed at Judicial Complex Kahuta, District Rawalpindi

4.717

132 Construction of Prayer Hall, Litigants Rooms, Shops and Security Room at Judicial Complex Rawalpindi

15.006

133 Construction of Judicial Officers' Residences at old Sessions House, District Sahiwal

27.411

134 Construction of Canteen in District Courts at Sahiwal 1.023

135 Construction of Residence for Grade 16-17 for Superintendent and Chowkidar Quarter 2 Nos. at Sargodha

3.726

136 Construction of 7 Nos. Civil Courts at Bhalwal, district Sargodha

29.142

137 Construction of Judicial Complex at Sahiwal, District Sargodha

81.488

138 Construction of 7 Nos. Civil Courts at Sargodha 28.596

139 Construction of 3 Nos. Courts for AD&SJJ and 3 Nos. for Civil Judges at Sargodha

8.880

140 Construction of Judicial Complex at Sillanwali, District Sargodha

64.671

141 Construction of 1 No. Senior Civil Judge Court in Judicial Complex Sargodha

12.677

142 Addition/alteration (Improvement/ Renovation) to House No.1-B of Judicial Colony Sargodha declared as Judicial Rest House

1.973

143 Construction of remaining Boundary Wall / Safety Grill on top of existing Boundary Wall around Judicial Complex at Bhalwal, District Sargodha

1.212

144 Construction of Record Room in District Complex at Sheikhupura

5.500

145 Construction of 2 Nos. Civil Court at Sambrial, district Sialkot

16.748

146 Construction of Bar Room at Judicial Complex Daska, District Sialkot

9.367

147 Construction of Sr. Civil Judges court in the premises of Civil courts at Sialkot

8.523

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6.8. TRANSPORT BRANCH:

The captioned branch is overall headed by an Additional

Registrar (Transport) with the assistance of a Deputy Registrar

and an Assistant Registrar. Its working sphere includes

repairing, maintenance and purchasing of cars. Services of Motor

Vehicle Examiner are also available to this branch for technical

supervision of repairing and maintenance.

Transport oriented tasks taken up during the year 2013 are

detailed below: -

SPECIAL CASES

Purchasing of 15 Toyota Corolla GLi Cars Model 2013 for Hon’ble Judges.

Purchasing of 12 Toyota Corolla Xli Cars Model 2013 for the officers.

Purchasing of 36-Suzuki Bolan VX 796 CC and 06-Toyota Hiace STD Roof A/C 2.7 Gasoline for Judicial Officers in all Districts of the Punjab.

Auction of 11 condemned/surplus official vehicles.

Official vehicle No.LEG-188 (Toyota Corolla-2012), sold to Hon’ble Mr. Justice ® Rauf Ahmad Sheikh at depreciated price of Rs.11,66,000/-.

Official vehicle No.LEG-431 (Toyota Corolla-2009) sold to Hon’ble Mr. Justice ® Nasir Saeed Sheikh at depreciated price of Rs.5,37,293/-.

Official vehicle No.LEG-444 (Toyota Corolla-2009) sold to Hon’ble Mr. Justice ® Ch. Muhammad Younas at depreciated price of Rs5,56,831/-.

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Official vehicle No.LEG-436 (Toyota Corolla-2009) sold to Hon’ble Mr. Justice ® Ijaz Ahmad at depreciated price of Rs.4,88,448/-.

Win first prize in “Chrysanthemum Show” held in Jillani Park (Race Course Park), Lahore.

Re-instatement of Seven Drivers who were retired under Rule 27 of this Court.

Re-instatement of one driver who was removed from service under Rule 23 of this Court.

Issue retirement orders in favour of Muhammad Rafi & Haroon Rasheed, Drivers.

Training of Drivers from National Highway & Motorway Police (NH&MP), Training College, Sheikhupura.

Training of Drivers i.e. “Road Safety and First Aid Orientation Course” conducted by the Rescue Emergency Academy 1122.

Registration of 27 newly purchased official vehicles and reservation of registration numbers 42 for newly purchased official vehicles of District Judiciary.

Implementation of the “Transport Software” Modules for repairing/maintenance of official vehicles, allocation of official drivers & official vehicles and petrol bills.

In addition to the above said activities, the branch also deals with

the cases of, re-imbursement of petrol bills, service matters of

drivers, issuance of driving licenses to the drivers, submission of

token tax and tracker system fee.

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6.9. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WING:

The IT Wing is engaged in providing efficient services and

solutions for boosting the overall efficiency of various sections.

The major responsibility of I.T. Section is to generate Regular,

Urgent and Supplementary Cause-Lists after collecting data from

judicial branches of this Court. The Software developed for the

purpose namely, Current Cases Information System enables

generation of lists Judges-wise and Lawyer-wise which have

greatly benefited members of the Bar and public at large.

Lawyers-wise list is also regularly updated on website of this

Court (www.lhc.gov.pk) for a wider benefit of the legal fraternity.

The Wing comprises Deputy Registrars, Assistant Registrars and

supporting staff.

6.9.1. SOFTWARE SECTION:

The achievements of the software section during the year 2013

are as under:

IVR HELPLINE:

IVR Helpline project is under progress with the coordination of

PITB, Government of the Punjab and The Resource Group (Pvt.).

This project has been extended to include the data of benches as

well and now ready for inauguration. This help-line is a free

service for public and lawyers to get information through

landline/mobile by dialing 1134.All helpline agents are fully

trained to handle inquires.

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AUTO MARKING OF CASES:

Whenever an urgent case is instituted in this court, it is

automatically marked to some court depending upon the Roster,

work load of Hon’ble Judges and their specialty. There is no

human intervention involved in this process which helps to make

the system transparent and trust worthy. Reference cases entry

in the software has been restricted (which was allegedly

misused) and the decision is left for the Hon’ble Courts, whether

reference is valid or other-wise. System automatically marks bail

matters to Hon’ble Courts depending upon FIR information fed

into it. To avoid accidental missing of FIR data, System has

been improved to mark only those bail matters in which FIR

information has been fed. Some new features have been added

to make this system more efficient and impartial.

ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATIONS:

IT Branch is also serving this court by sending electronic

notification to lawyers and public. Messages are being delivered

through two mediums i.e. e-mail and mobile SMS.

COURT QUERY MANAGER SOFTWARE:

A software is already developed for the Research Center of this

Court. Some new features such as search using keywords,

tagline, act, section or query no, Graphical representation of

reports, online module to share/add are incorporated for

improvement of the already developed software.

E-COURT INITIATIVES:

A first step towards e-court is to automate the court workings to

facilitate litigants to have easy and quick access to information of

their cases. Now litigants and aspirants get the judgments

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approved for reporting from LHC website. Last Hearing Status of

any case can be viewed from LHC website. Lahore High Court

website and District Courts websites provide effective and faster

24-hours access to facilitate general users, petitioners and

lawyers to visit and access the desired information (Cause List,

Rosters, and Copy Status, etc.) from their own premises.

COURT CALENDAR:

Court Calendar software is developed to facilitate the Hon’ble

Courts to maintain daily workload.

OPENING SHEET IMPLEMENTATION:

Software was developed and installed in the urgent cell feeding

the data of the cases at the time of filing of the cases. Some

features are as under:

Category and sub-category of the case.

Mobile and email addresses of all parties.

Verification of CNIC through NADRA.

Lower Court Case information.

Case Law involved etc. Software for the said purpose has been installed in Urgent Cell.

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM:

Stock Inventory Management System has been developed for

finance wing to record the stock position, acquisition of new

stock, the issuance of stock item and estimating the need of

stock in the next financial year. Moreover, it has the capacity to

maintain all the records of purchase orders and bills. A

dashboard has also been developed as part of the system to

visualize the utilization and acquisition of new stock at real time.

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PRESERVATION OF LAWYERS RECORD:

A software application has been developed to computerize the

scanned digital records of lawyer registration forms for CC,

pictures and other required necessary documents. The system

has the capability to track records of all changes made in the

lawyer profiles, documents and quick retrieval of any document.

QUEUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN URGENT CELL (TOKEN SYSTEM): Token system was developed by the IT software team of this

Court to facilitate the litigant public. Litigant are required to get

printed token from reception, after that he/she will wait in lounge,

as soon as his/her token number appears on display system,

he/she will move to respective counter. By implementation of this

system the culture change is obvious in Court.

TRANSPORT SOFTWARE APPLICATION:

Transport Branch Automation Software was developed for

Transport Branch of this Court to improve the efficiency,

accuracy and transparency in performing the daily tasks of the

branch. Some features of the said software are Vehicle & Driver

Allocation, Vehicle Transfer, sold-out vehicles and driver’s

leaves.

LHC WEBSITE:

The website of the Lahore High Court, Lahore is regularly

updated to ensure access to accurate and useful information to

members of the bar, litigant public and the officials of this Court.

At present, information available on the website includes cause

list, roster, last case hearing status, certified copy status, Rules

and Orders of Lahore High Court, Lahore, annual reports,

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notifications orders & circulars, reported judgments, status of the

green benches, names of journals, etc. In addition to the above,

some new features are also added in the website of this Court,

such as, Former Hon’ble Chief Justices & Hon’ble Judges

profiles, photo gallery, revived cause list.

6.9.2. NETWORK/HARDWARE SECTION:

The IT Wing offers an array of support services to users in the

courts as well as in the branches. The support staff of the IT

Wing resolves the problems regarding troubleshooting software

installation, hardware installation, assembling of new accessories

such as scanner printers, etc.

Various tasks performed by network section during the year 2013

are given below:-

About 9250 jobs were performed qua installation of computer equipment, software applications, operating systems, drivers, assembling and verification of new purchased system, laptops, installation of hardware network equipment, etc. at the Hon’ble courts, offices and camp offices of Hon’ble Judges. In addition to this, Hardware Team of IT Wing provides services in different meetings such as NJPMC, Administration Committee meeting, etc.

About 6134 jobs were performed qua printer sharing, network complaints, maintenance and repair of network nodes, switches and cabinets, installation of UTP backup uplinks, network ducting, Wireless LAN installation, etc.

About 868 jobs were performed qua installation of new server, proxy server roles/settings, official emails for Hon’ble Judges on PITB server, etc.

About 1,913,578 additional services were provided regarding Lahore High Court, Lahore Website,

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Supreme Court cases, notifications, press releases, Email Rosters to Hon’ble Judges, maintenance of LHC website, District Court websites, and ATA website, Maintenance of webserver, Court Query Manger, new Initiatives at LHC and District Courts, SMS services, etc.

DISTRIBUTION OF COMPUTER EQUIPMENT:

Under the scheme of “New I.T Initiatives 50 Printer medium duty

OKI (B411dn) and 06 numbers of Printer heavy duty OKI (B930)

were received from PITB and were distributed in the Hon'ble

Courts and offices. Further I.T equipment including 20 Computer

Dell (Core i7), 06 Laptop Dell (Core i5), 5 Laptop Dell (Core i3),

Multimedia Projector were also purchased by Lahore High Court,

Lahore. In addition to this, 11 wireless internet devices (EVO)

were provided to Hon’ble Judges and officers of this Court, 70

official ID card were issued to the officers, officials and staff of

District Courts, 902484 cases lists were printed out in routine and

1300 computer code numbers were issued to the lawyers, 150

Keyboards, 100 Mouse, 50 USB Flash Drives, 28 networking

switches, etc. were provided to Hon’ble Courts,

establishment/offices.

MONITORING OF KIOSK:

One of the significant developments of IT wing was

establishment of Information Kiosks for the facilitation of lawyers

and public at large. Assistant Registrar Computer runs its affairs,

regularly monitors and updates the status of facilities including

Information about location of courts, copy information/status,

roster information, case search, case fixation dates, case

history/status, and lawyers data collection & issuance of lawyers

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code to provide easy, accurate & useful information to all

concerned.

The performance of Information Kiosk during the year 2013 is

tabulated below:-

S/N QUERY CALLS

ATTENDED

1 Information about Location of Courts 100,000

2 Copy Information Status 250,000

3 Roster Information 120,000

4 Case Search 450,000

5 Lawyers’ data collection & Issuance of Lawyers’ Code

1,300

TOTAL CALLS ATTENDED 921,300

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6.10. ESTABLISHMENT WING:

This captioned wing enjoys very important position as it deals

with the appointments, promotion, postings/transfers, disciplinary

proceedings, and service appeals of all the gazetted/non

gazetted officials of this court. The wing also deals with the pay &

pensionary related matters of the Hon’ble Judges, Judicial

officers posted in the court and officers/officials of this court. The

wing is overall headed by an Addl. Registrar and comprises

Deputy Registrar (Admin.), Assistant Registrar (Gaz-I), Assistant-

Registrar (Gaz-II) and Assistant Registrar (Staff).

The establishment wing has been divided into the following three

limbs:-

Gazette Branch-I

Gazette Branch-II

Staff Branch

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6.10.1. GAZETTE BRANCH-I:

Gazette branch-I holds central importance in the establishment of

Lahore High Court as it deals with pay, pensionary related

matters of Hon’ble Judges, Judicial Officers posted in this Court

and all gazetted members of establishment of this Court. The

details of assignments performed by this Branch during the year

2013 are depicted below:

The pension cases of 04 Hon’ble Judges, 07 Officers of this Court were processed and obtain sanctions of Hon’ble Chief Justice, subsequently pursued and got finalized from Accountant General, Punjab and Treasury Office.

10 cases of pension were revised as family pension after the demise of pensioners.

100 cases of pension were revised of the Hon’ble Judges of this Court after the 1st revision of Pension in 2013.

55 cases of pension were revised of the Hon’ble Judges of this Court after the 2nd revision of Pension in 2013.

Leave Encashment of 05 Hon’ble Judges and 07 Officers of this Court were finalized.

03 cases of Disturbance allowance in favour of various officers of this Court were finalized.

03 cases of Special Pay in favour of various officers of this Court were finalized.

13 cases regarding new simplified procedure of pension through pension roll were finalized.

05 cases of Property Tax of Hon’ble Judges of this Court were finalized.

30-Miscellaneous Cases were also finalized.

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1079 cases regarding T.A/D.A. and Transfer grant on posting/transfer and retirement of Hon’ble Judges and officers of this Court have been dealt with.

12 monthly expenditure statement, 2nd statement, Annual Budget estimate for the forthcoming financial year.

100 Medical Claims of Hon’ble sitting Judges and serving officers and 65 Medical Claims of retired officers were reimbursed. Furthermore 200 free Medical Entitlement Certificates were issued in favour of serving as well as retired Hon’ble Judges and officers of this Court.

50 cases of G.P. Fund advance and final drawal by the Hon’ble Judges and officers of this Court processed and got finalized from Accountant General, Punjab and Treasury Office.

609 Bills regarding Pay and Allowances including arrear bills were prepared in favour of Hon’ble Judges and officers of this Court and 1000 Change forms were got effected from Accountant General, Punjab.

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6.10.2.GAZETTE BRANCH-II:

This unit of establishment wing deals with all service oriented

matters of the gazetted establishment of this Court such as oath

taking of Hon’ble Judges, preparation of charge assumption

reports/bio-data forms of Hon’ble Judges, appointments,

promotions, postings/transfers, disciplinary matters and service

appeals of the gazetted officers, etc.

The assignment performed by this branch during the period in

question is depicted below:-

SR. No.

Subject Matter Number of

cases proceeded.

1 N.O.C and ex-Pakistan leave/earned leave 30

2 Training programme, seminar conferences/work shops

04

3 Nomination of member election commission and appellate tribunals

10

4 Nomination of university syndicate and selection board

10

5 Matters related to sale and purchase of plots for gazetted officers

30

6 Matters related to bank loans/flexi loans for gazetted officers (BS-18 and above) and judicial officers.

20

7 Official permission for study 15

8 Summons cases 10

9 Creation of post cases 20

10 Benevolent fund cases 20

11 Inquiry/complaint cases 10

12 Charge assumption and relinquishment report

30

13

Appointment of Mr. Rab Nawaz Khan as Additional Registrar(Finance) promotion of Mr. Johnson Bernard as D.R. and set up a Liaison Cell for coordination with Election Commission of Pakistan for resolving of problems during general election 2013

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In addition to deal with the above-mentioned routine matters, the

branch under discussion also performs many other duties like

preparation of summer/winter vacation roaster, service

appeals/representation, constitution of procurement committee,

updating of personal files seniority lists of gazetted officers, life

insurance claim, allotment of residence to Hon’ble Judges of this

Court, reservation of Murree Judicial Lodge, and accommodation

to the officers to this Court.

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6.10.3. STAFF BRANCH:

The Staff branch may rightly be called as the backbone of the

establishment of Lahore High Court since it caters to majority of

its’ members in BS-5 to 15. Its’ working sphere includes

appointments, postings/transfers, disciplinary matters/inquiries,

leave of all categories and maintenance of seniority lists, etc.

During the year under review, the performance of the Staff

branch is as follows:

13 Officials (08 Assistants and 05 Senior Clerks) were nominated as Baillif(s) for one year on 09.3.2013.

Recruitment against solitary post of Telephone Technician (BS-08) was made, on open merit basis. Thus, after interviewing the eligible candidates, Mr. Athar Ali Shah who led the merit list was appointed as Telephone Technician (BS-08) on 20.06.2013. Likewise, on 01.10.2013, recruitment process on direct/open merit basis was initiated against the one vacant post of Calligraphist (BS-09). Eventually, on the basis of performance of the candidates in written test and interview, Mr. Fahad Mushtaq who topped the merit list was appointed as Calligraphist on 04.01.2014. Furthermore, recruitment process against the sole post of Imam Masjid was initiated on 20.10.2013. At present the said case is actively under process. In the meantime, Hafiz Ghulam Mustafa, retired Imam Masjid of this Court was re-appointed as Imam Masjid on contract basis for a period of 06-months w.e.f. 21.10.2013 to 20.04.2014. Recruitment cases against vacant posts of Assistant (BS-15), Caretaker (BS-14) and Junior Clerk (BS-11) were initiated in May 2013, with the assistance of National Testing Service, Islamabad (NTS). NTS conducted the written/typing test. The said cases are still under process.

Advertisements were published in newspapers for making recruitment against the posts of Junior Clerks under Rule 17-A of PCSR, 1974. In this connection, overall 31

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applicants (children/widow of ex-officials of this Court who either medically invalidated or died during service) applied for the said post. Out of whom, after considering their entitlement under the Rule ibid, 13 applicants were appointed as Junior Clerk on 03.07.2013. Besides, a recruitment case containing 18 applications of children/widow of ex-officials of this Court who either medically invalidated or died during service, for appointment as Junior Clerk under Rule 17-A of PCSR, 1974 is actively under process..

Almost 57 miscellaneous applications for appointment in this Court against the posts (07 to BS-15) in relaxation of rules on compassionate grounds, were dealt with by the office. Pursuant to the orders of the learned Registrar, the applicants were directed to apply afresh as and when the posts are advertised in the press.

On the request received from M/s Khalid Rasheed along with three other Junior Clerks namely Kazim Ali, Muhammad Ilyas and Muhammad Nawaz regarding due promotion as Senior Clerk, the learned Departmental Promotion Committee was got constituted and finally all of them were promoted as Senior Clerks w.e.f. 21.01.2013 (Ist three officials) and 06.12.2013 (the latter official). Afterwards, they moved requests for grant of proforma promotion w.e.f. 29.03.2011, the date of deferment/being ignored. Presently, their cases for grant of proforma promotion are under consideration before the learned Departmental Promotion Committees. Apart from above, the request of Mr. Muhammad Ilyas Anjum, Junior Clerk for grant of promotion as Senior Clerk was processed and the learned Registrar constituted Departmental Promotion Committee which is considering the said request. The said case is in progress.

In compliance with orders of the learned Registrar, Degrees/Result Cards of about 08 non-gazetted officials were got verified from the issuing authorities.

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Following official were allowed to proceed on retirement w.e.f. the

dates as mentioned against each:-

Name of the Official

Designation Date of Retirement

Remarks

Mr. Ejaz Ahmed Assistant 13.04.2013 Retired on superannuation

Mr. Muratab Ali Assistant 14.07.2013 -do-

Mr. Zain-ul-Abadeen

Assistant 17.07.2013 -do-

Malik Tazakat Hussain


Mr. Muhammad Pervaiz


Syed Riaz Hussain Shah


Mr. Mushtaq Ahmed

Senior Clerk 19.04.2013 -do-

Mr. Murad Haider Hashmi

Junior Clerk 04.07.2013 Compulsory retired

Mr. Muhammad Saeed

Junior Clerk 13.05.2013 Retired on superannuation

Mr. Muhammad Mumtaz

Junior Clerk 30.06.2013 -do-

Hafiz Ghulam Abbas

Imam Masjid 20.10.2013 -do-

Besides resignation of Mr. Muhammad Ahsan, Junior Clerk at his own request was accepted w.e.f. 19.03.2013.

61 non-gazetted officials (from BS-07 to BS-15) were posted/transferred within the establishment of this Court.

Vide this Court’s letter dated 18.07.2013, 4-Junior Clerks namely M/s Kamran Ahsan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Muhammad Usman Ikram and Irfan Ahmed of this Court were deputed to attend Fire Prevention Course No. FP-33, pf 2-weeks duration, from Federal Civil Defence Training School, Lahore.

On receipt of summons, 07-officials of this Court were allowed to appear in lower Courts or before Inquiry Officers for recording their evidences.

The Hon’ble Chief Justice was pleased to create/continue 13-temporary posts i.e. 3-Caretaker, 2-Proof Reader, 4-

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Telephone Operators, 2-Telephone Technician, 1-Technician, 1-Computer Operator, for the fiscal year 2013-2014 from within the allocated budget of this Court. Further, case for inclusion of aforesaid posts in SNE 2014-2015 was forwarded to the Budget Branch.

18-applications were received from the children/wife of the deceased/incapacitated officials of this Court, for appointment as Junior Clerks under Rule 17-A of PCSR, 1974. The case for their appointment as Junior Clerk in this Court is actively under process.

25 officials of this Court(from BS-07 to BS-15), posted at Principal Seat as well as allied Benches of this Court, granted departmental permission/ex-post facto permission for transactions (purchase/sale/transfer) of their moveable/ immovable properties/assets (house/plot/auricular-land & vehicles).

As many as 45-offciials of this Court were granted departmental permissions/NOCs to get admission and to appear in the examinations of various academic/professional courses/programs, in respective institutes/Universities/ Boards/Commissions.

43-officials of this Court were issued No Objection Certificates to obtain/renew International Passport to perform Umra/Hajj.

38-officials of this Court were sanctioned G.P.Fund Advances, either on refundable basis or in shape of final payment.

56-applications for appointment against different posts, submitted by the officials of this Court were forwarded to quarters concerned. Besides 27-requests seeking allotment of Government accommodation were duly forwarded to the Estate Office.

86-cases for grant of Monthly Aid/Funeral Charges/Marriage Grant out of Benevolent Fund were processed and forwarded to the quarters concerned

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including issuance of No Marriage Certificates/Life certificates to the ex-officials/their widows.

135-requests for grant of earned leave to the officials of this Court on various grounds were entertained. Besides, 70-officials were granted Medical Leave, 05-lady officials were granted Maternity Leave, 08-male officials were granted paternity leave and 12-offiicals were granted Ex-Pakistan Leave for performance of Umra/Hajj.

Disciplinary proceedings against six officials were initiated. Out of them three were penalized by stoppage of increments and cases against three are under process.

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6.11. JUDICIAL OFFICER ESTABLISHMENT WING:

Judicial Officer Establishment Wing is the backbone of this

august institution in real sense. The wing is overall headed by the

District and Sessions Judge (Establishment). It comprises of two

Deputy Registrars and four Assistant Registrars. The working

sphere includes enquiries, arrangements of A. C. meetings,

postings, transfers and promotion/service matters of the District &

Sessions Judges, Additional Session Judges, Senior Civil Judges

and Civil Judges/Judicial Magistrates, conferment of powers

upon Civil Judges, ACRs of non-gazetted/gazette officers &

judicial officers, moreovers, conferment of powers u/s 30 Cr. P.C.

and representations against adverse remarks.

The Judicial Officer Establishment Wing has been divided into

the following four limbs:-

Confidential Branch-I

Confidential Branch-II

Judicial Officers’ Branch-I

Judicial Officers’ Branch-II

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6.11.1. CONFIDENTIAL BRANCH-I:

Primarily, Confidential Branch was established to deal with

confidential matters of the Judicial Officers in the Punjab. With

the passage of time, sanctioned strength of Judicial Officers has

enhanced considerably. The Confidential Branch-I now deals

with matters of Judicial Officers regarding their

appointment/recruitment, conferment of Civil/Magisterial Powers,

promotion to the next higher rank, transfers, placing services of

the Judicial Officers against ex-cadre posts i.e. Banking Courts,

Accountability Courts, Drug Courts, Special Judge (Central), Anti-

Terrorism Courts, Anti-Corruption Courts, Labour Courts, District

Consumer Courts, Special Courts (Control of Narcotics

Substances), Special Courts (Custom, Taxation and Anti-

Smuggling), Environmental Protection Tribunal, LDA Tribunal,

Child Protection Court, Customs, Excise and Sales Tax Appellate

Tribunals, Member Punjab Service Tribunal and many other ex-

cadre posts which are created by the Federal /Provincial

Government from time to time.

The Confidential Branch-I manages meetings of Administration Committee, Provincial Judicial Selection Board, Departmental Evaluation Committee, Departmental Confirmation Committee, Proforma Promotion Committee, Review Committee, Recruitment Committee, Departmental Examination Committee and meetings of other committees constituted from time to time to consider service record and administration of Judicial Officers’ matters. The Confidential Branch-I, gets convened meetings of Hon’ble Administration Committee, Sub-Committees covering different administrative issues regarding the administration of Judiciary all over the Punjab.

The Confidential Branch-I also manages computerized data of Judicial Officers i.e. District and Sessions Judges,

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Additional District and Sessions Judges, Senior Civil Judges-cum-Magistrates, Civil Judges-Cum-Magistrates consisting of their profiles, history cards, seniority lists, etc.

The Hon’ble Authority usually entrusts urgent/confidential assignments of other branches pertaining to establishment of this Court to the Confidential Branch-I for dealing with proficiently/confidentially which expresses trust of the Authority in this Branch. In various meetings, the Hon’ble Judges appreciated the working of Confidential Branch-I. Regarding disciplinary proceedings against Judicial Officers, officials of Confidential Branch-I, on request of the Inquiry Officer, also assist the Inquiry Officer during the inquiry, at various stations throughout the Punjab.

During the current year, the Confidential Branch-I arranged a number of meetings of the Provincial Judicial Selection Board/Administration Committee, Performance Evaluation Committee, Proforma Promotion Committee, Departmental Confirmation Committee and Departmental Examination Committee to consider the promotion cases of Additional District and Sessions Judges to the rank of District & Sessions Judges and Senior Civil Judges to the rank of Additional District & Sessions Judges, disciplinary matters, requests of Judicial Officers for grant of proforma promotion and recruitment of Civil Judges-Cum-Magistrates against 181 vacant posts. During the said year, the following numbers of Judicial Officers were promoted to the next higher rank:-

Category No. of

officers considered

No. of officers

promoted

Additional District and Sessions Judges for promotion as District and Sessions Judges .

42 19

Senior Civil Judges for promotion as Additional District and Sessions Judges.

36 27

Civil Judges for promotion as Senior Civil Judges.

39 22

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07 Judicial Officers were granted proforma promotion by the Hon’ble Administration Committee and rejected representations of 20 Judicial Officers for grant of proforma promotion after scrutinizing their service record.

During current year, the Confidential Branch-I consisting of only 11 members efficiently conducted examination for 135 posts of Civil Judges-cum-Magistrates.

The Confidential Branch-I also conducted Departmental Examination of 24 Civil Judges-Cum-Magistrates twice under the rules. Result was prepared and announced on 30.03.2013 and 24.09.2013.

During the year 2013, the Hon’ble Administration Committee/Authority performed following business pertaining to Judicial Officers:-

i) Disciplinary proceedings were initiated against 13 Judicial Officers.

ii) Disciplinary proceedings were dropped against 03 Judicial Officers.

iii) Minor penalty of Censure was imposed upon the 01Judicial Officers.

iv) Services of 01 Judicial Officer were terminated. v) Major penalty was imposed upon 02 Judicial

Officers. vi) Minor penalty of withholding of promotion/annual

increment/s was imposed upon 01 Judicial Officers.

vii) Warning was issued to 03 Judicial Officers. viii) 21 Additional District & Sessions Judges were

confirmed in service. ix) Special Chance for appearing in Departmental

Examination for Civil Judges was granted to 01 Civil Judges.

x) Disciplinary proceedings were abated against 01 Judicial Officer on attaining the age of superannuation.

Powers of Civil Judge Class-I were conferred upon 83 Civil Judges Class-II whereas Powers of Civil Judge Class-II were also conferred upon 03 Civil Judges Class-III.

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Review petition of 13 Judicial Officer were rejected by the Hon’ble Administration Committee.

Counsels at the panel of this Court and Advocate General Punjab were assisted before the Hon’ble Punjab Subordinate Judiciary Service Tribunal and Hon’ble Supreme Court, respectively in a number of appeals/CPLAs.

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6.11.2. CONFIDENTIAL BRANCH-II:

This unit of judicial establishment deals with ACRs, assets and

other important matters of judicial officers which may not be

recorded here being confidential and sensitive in nature.

However, a general quantitative account of the assignments

performed by this branch is reflected hereunder:-

Sr.#

Category of cases No. of Cases

Received Disposal

Under process

1

(i) Declaration of Income & Assets (2011-12) of the Judicial Officers (in-field & ex-cadre) & Superintendents of Sessions Courts.

1316

Scrutiny of 22 districts comprising

562 Forms.

754 (Under

process)

(ii) Declaration of Income & Assets (2011-12) of Members of the Establishment (officers & officials).

1771 Under

process

1771 Forms

(iii) Declaration of Income & Assets (2012-13) of the Judicial Officers (in-field & ex-cadre) & Superintendents of Sessions Courts.

1282 Scrutiny of 31 Forms

1251 Forms

(iv) Declaration of Income & Assets (2012-13) of Members of the Establishment (officers & officials).

1567 Scrutiny of 13 Forms

1554 Forms

2

Reports regarding Declaration of Assets given in any kind of permission cases sought by the concerned branches in respect of Judicial Officers, Superintendents, (Sessions Courts) and all Officers /Officials of this Court including three benches.

560 560 Nil

3 Statements of Assets’ Declarations of the Judicial Officers officers/officials of this Court including its benches.

255 255 Nil

4

Feeding/Computerization of Forms of Assets’ Declaration of all judicial officers and establishment of members of this Court in the software: Personal Information & Performance Monitoring System.

2849 1686 1163

5 Performance Evaluation Reports of Judicial Officers (2012)

2091 1668 423

6 P.E.Rs of establishment members of Lahore High Court.

1444 1436 8

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Sr.#

Category of cases No. of Cases

Received Disposal

Under process

7

Provision of reports qua completion of PERs/adverse materials to the concerned Branches in various service matters.

50 50 Nil

8

Placement of letters/certificates of appreciation and observations passed on judicial side in the C.R. Dossiers of judicial officers.

14 14 Nil

9 Preparation of synopsis of PERs of judicial officers.

2091 2091 Nil

10 Provision of synopsis of PERs and summaries of C.R. Dossiers of judicial officers to Confidential Branch-I.

1605 Requisitions

1605 Nil

11 Preparation of summaries of C.R. Dossiers of Judicial Officers.

599 Requisitions

599 --

12

Collection of passport & post-card size photographs of all judicial officers and members of the establishment of Lahore High Court including its’ Benches.

3137 3137 Nil

13 Communication of adverse remarks. 55 53 2

14 Communication of advisory remarks. 85 84 1

15 Representations against adverse remarks.

42 7 35

16 Service Appeals 3 1 2

17

Permission qua sale, purchase or disposal of moveable/immovable property(s) in respect of all judicial officers.

99 81 18

18 Diarization of the all categories of cases/PPUC

2991 2991 Nil

19 Letters issued. -- 1208 --

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6.11.3. JUDICIAL OFFICER’S BRANCH -I (JOB-I):

The subject office, usually abbreviated as ‘JOB’ branch has been

bifurcated into two branches i.e. JOB-I & JOB-II on the basis of

quantum and nature of assignments. As evident from the title

itself, these two branches deal with multifarious tasks relating to

Judicial Officers of the whole province. The JOB-I branch is an

integral unit of Judicial Officers’ Establishment Wing and

exclusively deals with the service matters of District & Sessions

Judges and Additional District& Sessions Judges.

Assignment wise performance of the JOB-I branch is tabulated below: -

Sr.# Subject Matter (s ) /Category

Ref . received

Disp. under

process

1 Educat iona l Scho larsh ip (s ) out o f Benevo lent Fund.

55 55 -

2 Trans fe r o f cases . 45 45 -

3 Mat te rs o f dec eased Of f i ce rs (who d ies whi l e in se rv ice /a f ter re t i rement )

05 04 01

4 Encashment in l ieu o f LPR in r /o o f D/AD&SJJ

30 29 01

5 Farewel l Grant out o f Benevo lent Fund.

16 15 01

6 Outs tand ing Dues aga ins t D/AD&SJJ

30 20 10

7 Pos t ing/Tour o f D/AD&SJJ 72 60 12

8 HRC Refe rence(s ) rec e ived f rom Apex Supreme Cour t o f Pak is tan.

01 01 -

9 Vacat ion/A l lo tment o f res idence i n r /o o f D/AD& SJJ

20 20 -

10 Perm iss ion to de l i ve r Lec ture(s ) i n r / o D/AD&SJJ

50 50 -

11 Grant o f TA/DA b i l l i n r /o o f D/AD&SJJ

11 10 01

12 St r ike o f d i f fe rent Ba r Assoc ia t ions in the Punjab .

350 350 -

13 Conferment o f Powers upon D/AD&SJJ

05 05 -

14 Serv ice o f summons upon D/AD&SJJ

10 10 -

15 I ssuance o f Ret i rement Not i f i ca t ion.

16 16 -

16 Ex-Pak is tan/Earned/Medic a l Leave o f D/AD&SJJ

300 300 -

17 Perm iss ion for Passpor t in r /o 33 33 -

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Sr.# Subject Matter (s ) /Category

Ref . received

Disp. under

process

of D/AD&SJJ

18 Sanc t ioned o f GP Fund Advance

14 14 -

19 Re- imbursement o f Medica l Charges .

104 104 -

20 Perm iss ion to ava i l Loan Fac i l i t y f rom d i f fe rent Bank s .

01 01 -

21 Untoward inc i dent took p lace in the prem ises o f Sess ions Cour ts in the Punjab.

30 30 -

22 Tra in ing o f D/AD&SJJ a t Federa l Jud ic ia l Academy, I s lamabad

10 10 -

23 Tra in ing o f D/AD&SJJ a t Pun jab Jud ic ia l Academy, Lahore

02 + 03-b a t ch e s o f P e r f o rm an

ce E v a l ua t i o n

T r a i n i ng o f A D& S JJ

05 -

24 Casua l Leave o f the D/AD&SJJ 720 720 -

25 Stat ion/Shor t Leave o f the D/AD&SJJ

480 480 -

26 Journey Days o f the D/AD&SJJ 03 03 -

27 Pos t ing/Trans fer o f Spec ia l Jud ic ia l Magis t ra tes

60 50 10

28 Pens ion cases o f D/AD&SJJ 54 32 22

29 No Demand Cer t i f i ca te i n r /o D/AD&SJJ

36 27 08

30 Ex-Pak is tan/Earned/ Medica l Leave o f Spec ia l Jud ic ia l Magis t ra t es .

12 12 -

31 MIC Powers to Spec ia l Jud ic ia l Magis t ra t es .

10 08 02

32 Publ ica t ion o f Cour t Not ices 21 19 02

33 Jud ic ia l Inqu i res 05 05 -

34 NOC fo r adm iss ion in Higher Educat ion.

20 20 -

35 Tour o f Spec ia l Jud ic ia l Magis t ra t es .

01 01 -

36 Maintenance o f H is to ry Record o f Jud ic ia l Of f i ce rs (D/AD&SJJ)

16 16 -

37 Maintenance o f H is to ry rec ord o f Spec ia l Jud ic ia l Magis t ra tes .

15 15 -

38 Fami ly Pens ion case i n respec t o f deceas ed D/AD&SJJ

07 06 01

39 Maintenance o f D is t r i c t -w is e and Ex-cadre l i s ts / record f i les .

300 300 -

40 Misc . 767 767 -

41 Charge Repor ts o f D/AD&SJJ 750 750 -

Total 4490 4419 71

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6.11.4. JUDICIAL OFFICERS’ BRANCH-II (JOB-II):

The JOB-II branch is a vital unit of Judicial Officers’

Establishment Wing and deals with the service matters of Senior

Civil Judges and Civil Judges/Judicial Magistrates.

Its efficiency during the year under review is depicted below: -

Sr.# Subject Matter (s ) /Category Ref .

received Ref .

d isp of

Ref . under

process

1 Educat iona l Scho larsh ip (s ) out o f Benevo lent Fund.

6 6 Ni l

2 Trans fe r o f cases . 2 Ni l 2

3 Higher Qual i f i ca t ion A l lowance (S r /CJJ)

5 3 2

4 Encashment in l ieu o f LPR in r /o o f (Sr /CJJ)

2 1 1

5 Farewel l Grant out o f Benevo lent Fund.

2 1 1

6 Outs tand ing Dues aga ins t (Sr /CJJ)

14 12 2

7 Pos t ing/Tour o f (Sr /CJJ) 10 8 2

8 HRC Refe rence(s ) rec e ived f rom Apex Supreme Cour t o f Pak is tan.

2 2 Ni l

9 Vacat ion/A l lo tment o f res idence i n r /o o f (Sr /CJJ )

8 8 Ni l

10 Grant o f TA/DA b i l l i n r /o o f (Sr /CJJ)

50 50 Ni l

11 St r ike o f d i f fe rent Ba r Assoc ia t ions in the Punjab .

12 12 Ni l

12 Conferment o f Powers upon (Sr /CJJ)

7 7 Ni l

13 Serv ice o f summons upon (Sr /CJJ)

18 18 Ni l

14 Newly c reated pos ts o f CJ J ac ross the Pun jab.

1 1 Ni l

15 Ex-Pak is tan/Earned/Medic a l Leave o f (Sr /CJJ)

222 218 4

16 Perm iss ion for Passpor t in r /o o f (S r /CJJ)J

44 44 Ni l

17 Sanc t ioned o f GP Fund Advance

10 9 1

18 Re- imbursement o f Medica l Charges .

23 17 6

19 Serv ice Cer t i f i ca te o f (Sr /CJJ)

5 5 Ni l

20 Res ignat ion f rom Serv ice 3 3 Ni l

21 Contempt o f Cour t rece i ved f rom the subord inate Cour t s .

- - -

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Sr.# Subject Matter (s ) /Category Ref .

received Ref .

d isp of

Ref . under

process

22 Inc idents occur red in cour t s prem ises in the p rov ince o f Pun jab.

12 12 Ni l

23 Of f icer Orde rs o f the D&SJ , ac ross the Pun jab

10 10 Ni l

24 Extens ion in Jo in ing T ime (Sr /CJJ)

5 5 Ni l

25 Compla in t aga ins t Jud ic ia l Of f i cers

2 2 Ni l

26 Pens ion/Encas hment cases o f (Sr /CJJ)

3 2 1

27 NOC fo r adm iss ion in Higher Educat ion and app l y for o the r pos ts

90 86 4

28 Misc . 15 13 2

29 Charge Repor ts o f SCJJ /CJJ in respec t to the i r leaves

444 444 Ni l

30 Charge Repor ts o f SCJJ /CJJ on the i r T rans fe r

1147 1147 Ni l

31 Tra in ing a t Federa l Jud ic i a l Academy, I s lamabad

11 11 Ni l

32 Tra in ing a t Pun jab Jud ic ia l Academy, Lahore

4 4 Ni l

33 Other Refe rences for Nominat ions

6 6 Ni l

34 Change o f Name 2 2 Ni l

35 Change o f D is t r i c t o f Domic i le

4 4 Ni l

36 Spec imen of S ignatures f rom Civ i l Judge -cum-Jud ic ia l Magis t ra tes

23 23 Ni l

Total 2224 2196 28

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6.12. GENERAL & SERVICES WING:

The Wing is overall headed by an Addl. Registrar and comprises

Deputy Registrars, Assistant Registrars. The working sphere

includes. enrollment of Supreme Court lawyers, grant of licenses

to Oath Commissioners, jail petitions/trials and selection of Panel

for Defense Counsel, loss of Judicial Records in the District

Judiciary. Service of summons distribution of orders, notifications,

circulars, notices/summons and official correspondence to

Government as well as private sectors, service matters of Class-

IV establishment, protocol duties and establishment matters of

the Lower Court staff in BS-1 to 16.

Every branch of this Wing has a fundamental role for providing a

number of services and facilities to various ranks/hierarchies of

this Court.

General & Services wing has been divided into the following six

limbs:-

General Branch General Issue Section Resident Branch Protocol Branch Lower Court Establishment Branch Security Branch

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6.12.1. GENERAL BRANCH:

The General Branch has a sub-section known as General Issue

Section, which has direct nexus with the overall performance of

other offices as it is an agency which makes possible the

issuances/circulations of each and every

communication/correspondence, orders, notifications, circulars,

notices/summons and official correspondence to Government as

well as private sectors sans which entire mechanism and

implementation of this Court’s orders may come to a halt. This

fact may very well be adjudged from the amount & volume of

work performed by this Section. General branch has been

entrusted with quite voluminous and important assignments of

the likes of enrollment of Supreme Court lawyers, grant of

licenses to Oath Commissioners, jail trials and selection of panel

for defence counsel, etc.

Its efficiency during the period in question is depicted below:-

645 cases were received qua enrollment of advocates as

advocates of Hon’ble Supreme Court of Pakistan and out

of them 221 have been were disposed of and 421 are

under process.

61 cases were received qua direct enrolments of the

lawyers under section 27(c) of the Legal Practitioners and

Bar Councils Act, 1973, out of which 36 disposed of and

25 are under process.

221 cases were received qua granting licenses for fresh

appointments/extensions as Oath Commissioners to

lawyers and retired employees of this Court/Lower Courts,

out of which 179 disposed of and 42 are pending.

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276 cases were received qua selection of panel for

Defence Counsel and all of them are under process.

93 complaints against advocates were received and all of

them have been disposed of.

The statistics of the assignments of General Branch during

the year 2013 is reflected below:

Assignment No. of cases

received Disp.

Under Process

Diary 26645+820

=27465 27465 --

Supreme Court Enrolment Cases

645 (some relates to previous years)

221 424

Direct Enrollment U/s 27 (c)

61 36 25

Defence Counsel Cases 276 -- 276

Complaint against Advocates

93 93 --

Appointment/Extension of Oath-Commissioners

221 179 42

Jail Trials/ Transfer/Production of

accused

425 (consolidated + case

to case basis)

425 --

Loss of Judicial Record 119 12 107

Service of Summons 1,123 1,123 --

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6.12.2. GENERAL ISSUE SECTION:

The performance of the general issue section during the year

under review is as follows:

SR# ASSIGNMENTS

1 Diary Number given to letters/

notification/circular/orders 34,984+330=35,314

2 No. of letters/notification/circular/

orders dispatched. 137,942

3 No. Letters/notices/ files issued

/returned in High Court. 8,550+1,125+1,170=1

0,845

4 No. of notification/circular/ proformas /

orders Cyclostyled 815,124

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6.12.3. RESIDENT BRANCH:

Resident Branch is one of the main branches of General and

Services Wing which controls Class-IV establishment viz.

Daftries, Qasids, Naib Qasids, Frash, Sweepers, Watchmen,

Watermen and Malies etc. It makes postings/transfers of Daftries,

Qasids and Naib Qasid in Hon’ble Courts and offices. At the

same time it supervises maintenance of High Court building’s

lawns and cleanliness of Courts/offices including premises of

High Court. In addition to this, it also deals with the matter qua

taking possession and maintenance of vacant Bungalows in

GOR-I by making their relevant inventories.

The Resident Branch deals with the metters of Class-IV i.e.

appointments, disciplinary proceedings, inquiries,

postings/transfers, GP fund, regular leave and promotion cases

(in other words all establishment of Class-IV). It provides

Daftries/Qasids/Naib Qasids to the Courts as well as in the

Offices and supervises maintenance of High Court. Branch also

deals with the matters of allotment of quarters and auctions of the

shops situated at High Court premises.

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6.12.4. PROTOCOL BRANCH:

The captioned branch, though works under over all supervision of

the Additional Registrar (G&S), has its own and somewhat

independent working domain, where concerned officers/officials

remain directly at the beck & call of Hon’ble Chief Justice,

Hon’ble Judges, worthy Registrar, etc. for immediate

performance of protocol duties. The branch comprises a Deputy

Registrar, an Assistant Registrar and supporting staff. In order to

facilitate Hon’ble retired Judges, an extension of Protocol branch

has been set up by exclusively deputing an Assistant Registrar

Protocol therein so that this revered, intellectual class and their

families may not have to face problems after retirement.

Salient tasks performed by this branch are enumerated below: -

Made arrangements in connection with oath making ceremony of the Hon'ble Chief Justice at Governor House and newly appointed Hon’ble Judges of this Court in the Judges Lounge.

Made arrangements regarding meeting of the Hon'ble Chief Justice with Judges of Anti-Terrorism Courts in the Punjab and for meeting of Al-Mizan Foundation in the new Library Hall of this Court.

Made arrangements regarding address of the Hon'ble Chief Justice to the District & Sessions Judges of the province of Punjab.

Made arrangements in respect of oath-taking ceremony of Hon’ble Acting Chief Justice at Governor House.

Made arrangements in connection with Brunch hosted in favour of an Indian delegation comprising President/members of Supreme Court Bar and High Court Bar Association.

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Made arrangements regarding flag-hoisting Ceremony and illumination of High Court Building on the occasion of 14th of August and 12

th of Rabiul Awwal.

Made arrangements in connection with farewell dinner in honour of retired Hon’ble Chief Justice of Pakistan.

Dealt with all the matters relating to allocation of Court-rooms to Hon’ble Judges and regarding their stay in the Judges Rest Houses.

Received and saw off the Hon’ble Judges of this Court, their families as well as the Hon’ble Judges of other Provincial High Courts at the Airport & Daewoo Bus Terminal from time to time on their visits to Benches and abroad from Lahore on various occasions.

Dealt with the matters relating to reservation of seats and purchase of tickets of various airlines on the occasion of visit of the Hon’ble Judges to Benches as well as abroad.

Made arrangements in connection with send-off on the eve of retirement of Hon’ble Judges.

Dealt with the matters relating to issuance/renewal of driving licenses, membership of various clubs and provision of necessary information regarding visas of different countries for the Hon’ble Judges and their families.

Received various dignitaries/guests/delegations on the occasion of their visits to High Court regarding different meetings with the Hon’ble Chief Justice and Hon’ble Judges.

Performed many other assignments entrusted by the Hon’ble Chief Justice and the Hon’ble Judges of this Court from time to time.

Made arrangements and saw-off/received Hon’ble Judges at the Wahga Border on the occasion of visits of their lordships to India.

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6.12.5. LOWER COURT ESTABLISHMENT BRANCH:

This section is an integral office of the General & Services Wing

and exclusively deals with service matters of staff of the District

Judiciary in the Punjab. The detail of assignments in segregated

form discharged by this section during 2013 is as under:-

Sr.

No

.

Category of cases

Re

ce

ive

d

Dis

po

sa

l

Under process

1 Post ing/ t ransfe r o f Super in tendents of Sess ions Divis ions

- 04 -

2 Var ious mat ters re la t ing to of f ic ia ls (BPS -01 to 16)

104 94 10

3 Service Appeals (Previous pendency 209) 61 66 204

4

Compla ints against the of f ic ia ls (BPS 01 -16) work ing in sub-ord inate Cour ts in the Punjab. (Sent to HRC Sect ion of th is Court 41)

66 21 04

5

Representat ion for expunct ion of adverse remarks recorded in the ACRs of the of f ic ia ls o f sub -ord inate Courts in the Punjab

16 15 13

6 No Object ion Cert i f icate for obta in ing an In ternat ional Passport for per formance of Haj j /Umrah a longwi th Ex-Pakis tan Leave

135 114 21

7 Medica l Cla ims/Medica l Bi l ls 29 27 02

8 Mutual Transfers 47 40 07

9 One way Transfers /W edlock Pol icy 60 53 07

10 Admin is t ra t i ve Approval o f Recru i tments made in Sess ions Divis ions

192 181 11

11 Appl icat ions for Appointment /Compla ints 277 261 16

Grand Tota l 984 872 287

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6.12.6. SECURITY BRANCH:

Security Branch is responsible for the security of the High Court

Building, Hon’ble judges and officers/officials of this Court. In

addition to that, it is also responsible for checking of visitors so

that they may not bring electronic devices such as cell phones,

pagers or personal digital assistants that also function as cell

phones in the building. Weapons are also prohibited. All visitors

to the high Court must pass through a metal detector from all its

gates.

Security oriented tasks taken up during the year 2013 are

detailed below:-

MATTERS UNDER PROCESS

13-Morchas/bunkers at different points/gates of this court are being prepared.

Installation of Jammers in all the sitting court rooms is under process.

Recruitment of two fire fighters.

Shifting of three fire alarm panels from 12-Court Building to Security Control Room and service of Fire Alarm Panels connected with all the Judicial Records.

Counter Improvised Explosive Devices Organization (CIEDO)’ Training/others periodic security related training.

COMPLETE MATTERS

CCTV System containing 129 cameras and 17 monitors/LCDs are under operation in the premises of this Court as well as on parameter wall for 24 hours for the fool-proof security of this Court.

Installation of Under Vehicle Surveillance System at all gates of this Court.

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Maintenance of CCTV system at the official residences of HCJ(11-Aikmen Road) and Judges Rest House I & II Tolinton Lane, GOR, I, Lahore which is working 24 hours.

A Fire-fighting system is under operation and being maintained properly.

Checking of security duty according to daily duty roster as under:-

[

i. Police employees of Battalion-7. ii. Police employees of Special Branch.

iii. Police employees of District Police. iv. Police employees of Elite Force. v. Police employees of Ladies Staff.

Special security duty arrangements at the time of meetings held in this Court from time to time.

Provision of ladies and gents police staff for the assistance of the Courts on demand specifically in love marriage cases, etc.

Special security arrangements/deployment of route at the time of visit of Hon’ble Chief Justice and Judges to Lahore High Court Bar Association and other events within the High Court premises as well as Judicial Academy.

Deployment of security personnel at eight observation posts on the parameter wall of this Court.

Trimming of those trees which made hurdle for monitoring through CCTV Cameras for better result of CCTV System is being arranged from time to time.

Installation of Hydraulic Road Blockers/Barriers at all the five gates of this Court.

Construction of new jerky Barriers at the entry gates of Lahore High Court Premises.

Deployment of Naib Courts and Gunmen with Hon’ble Judges.

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Hon’ble Chief Justice presenting shield to Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sidi Yahefdhou, Chief Justice of Islamic Republic of Mauritania

on a visit to Lahore High Court, Lahore.

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Chapter No : 7

Inquiries Research / National Judicial Policy Cell

& Research Center

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7.1 INQUIRES RESEARCH /NATIONAL JUDICIAL

POLICY:

The wing is headed by the D&SJ (I&R/NJP) and comprises of the

Additional Session Judges and Civil Judges. Office of District &

Sessions Judge (Inquiries, Research & Development) established

in the year 2011 was given the nomenclature of District &

Sessions Judge (Inquiries & Research/NJP) with enhanced

scope of multifarious assignments spreading from cognitive

projects like Capacity Building of Judicial Officers, IT Training of

Judges and staff, leave encashment, performance evaluation

reports, Standardization of Procedures to managerial tasks,

Citizen Court Liaison, Internal Audit of Stock, encompassed

S.A.A.R.C. Exchange Programme and introduction of Civil

Litigation Expenses Laws. The categorical/respective

achievements of the wing under discussion are substantiated

below:-

CAPACITY BUILDING OF JUDICIAL OFFICERS:

Capacity Building with the conceptual approach to understand

the obstacles that inhibit the judicial officers and to draw

measures to enhance their abilities for measureable and

sustainable results was focused. In the first phase the Capacity

Building on Individual Level was taken up, it requires the

development of conditions that allow individual participants to

attain and exchange existing knowledge / skills and to create the

circumstance to allow individuals to engage in the process of

learning and adopting to the changes in the surroundings.

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The following projects are achieved during the year 2013:-

CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECTS 2013-14, (DISTRICT JUDICIARY OF PUNJAB)

Durat ion Venue Part ic ipants Course/W orkshop

07 .01.2013

To 12.01.2013

Punjab Jud ic ia l

Academy, Lahore

25 Female Civ i l

Judge/J M From Punjab

One W eek Capac i t y Bu i ld ing Tra in ing/Ref resher course fo r Female Civ i l Judges o f Pun jab.

14.01.2013

To 19.01.2013

Punjab Jud ic ia l

Academy, Lahore

21 Female Civ i l

Judge/J M From Punjab

One W eek Capac i t y Bu i ld ing Tra in ing/Ref resher course fo r Female Civ i l Judges o f Pun jab.

03.02.2014

To 17.03.2014

Punjab Jud ic ia l

Academy, Lahore

25 AD&SJ Two W eek Capac i ty Bu i ld ing Tra in ing/Ref resher Course fo r Add i t iona l D is t r i c t and Sess ions Judges .

SUGGESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS BY DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF SOCIETY:

This office appreciated the suggestions and measures for

improvement in administration of justice. It addressed the

proposals and suggestions by all the stake holders of the society

including the general public. During the year more than a

hundred letters /proposals were received from Judicial Officers,

Lawyers, litigants and general Public and appropriate actions

were proposed.

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STANDARDIZATION OF PROCEEDINGS / PROCEDURE, THROUGH SOPs:

The Complaints where the accused were released from jail on

presentation of Fake Jail Robkars were referred to this section. In

addition to disciplinary action by MIT, the Standard Operating

Procedure (SOP's) were drafted and circulated to avoid such like

instances. The feedback was positive and no such occurrence

was reported during the year.

It also dealt with complaints where the Raiding Magistrates during

the Anti-Corruption measures had exceeded their limits and

violation of human rights. To standardize the raiding procedure In

Trap Cases; the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP's) for the

Pre-raid and Post-raid proceedings were drafted and circulated.

The instances of non-production of accused before magistrate

and illegal confinement by police officials are not unknown, to

curb this practice and to standardize the Magisterial Supervision,

the maintenance of specific registers with specific columns are

devised. Every Physical or Judicial Remand is entered in specific

registers which provide information as to status of confinement

and the submission of challan.

HOLDING OF SEMINARS:

To standardize the legal education and to address the mushroom

growth of law colleges, a seminar was arranged at new library;

the seminar was presided by Hon’ble Chief Judge and Judges of

Lahore High Court, Lahore. The Chairman, Punjab Bar Council

Legal Education Committee, eminent law scholars, principals

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from selected law colleges of Punjab, Baluchistan, Khyber

Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh raised points to ponder. The proposals

and debates were recorded and suggested to be placed before

Hon’ble Chief Justice of Pakistan for further consideration.

GREETING CARDS:

The initiative that the institution should have a specific/special

greeting card for every season to be published on auspicious

occasions, like Eid with insignia and picture of this court was

approved and the approved specimen would be published.

TRAINING OF RESCUE (EMERGENCY SERVICE):

The matter pertaining to security of High Court premises and

personnel was discussed in a meeting headed by Mr. Justice

Syed Mansoor Ali Shah wherein the proposal that Punjab

Emergency Services be requested to provide Security Response

Training to enable officials to be productive in case of any

emergency was approved. The employees of High Court and of

District Courts were imparted security response training in

batches at 1122 service centers.

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7.2 NATIONAL JUDICIAL POLICY CELL:

The foremost and sought after objective of the National Judicial

Policy-2009 is “justice for all”, which impliedly includes “justice for

all at the door step”. The Policy banks upon ensuring

enforcement of the constitutional principles of equality before law

and equal protection of law. The key features of the National

Judicial Policy are strengthening the independence of judiciary by

its separation from the executive and ridding the courts of the

menace of corruption, thereby presenting a clean and positive

image of judiciary. Its goals are to initially reduce and ultimately

eliminate backlog both from superior as well as subordinate

courts and further to fix time frame for disposal of civil and

criminal cases. With a view to pursuing an effective

implementation of the Policy, this Court established NJP Cell

under the direct and spirited guidance/supervision of the learned

Registrar which catered to the following implementations of NJP

in the year 2013:-

Issued directions to all the District & Sessions Judges to provide details of every old case Criminal/Civil (Oldest, Older and Old Cat-I) cases pending on 10.01.2013 with reasons for delay.

Issued directions to all the District & Sessions Judges to maintain healthy environment in Judicial Complexes, cleanliness, hygienic conditions and properly lit courts.

Issued directions to all the District & Sessions Judges to provide information pertaining to delay in completion of investigation/submission of challans.

Issued directions to all the District & Sessions Judges to provide information pertaining to number of Jail visits by

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Judicial Officers and release of prisoners involved in petty offences.

Issued directions to all the District & Sessions Judges to provide information pertaining to number of UTPs not produced before the Court for remand/trial.

Issued directions to all the District & Sessions Judges to ensure the disposal of New Oldest (upto 31.12.2008) cases by deciding the backlog positively till 28.02.2013.

Issued directions to all the District & Sessions Judges to feed fortnight statements of NJP through online software.

Issued directions to all the District & Sessions Judges to observe practice and procedural measures contained in Practice Note for applications u/s 22-A & 22-B Cr.P.C.

Issued directions to all the District & Sessions Judges to provide information regarding delayed/ non-submission of challans and action taken against delinquent investigating officers for non-submission of challans timely.

Issued directions to all the District & Sessions Judges pursuant to the directions of NJPMC Meeting dated 23.11.2013 to revise the categories with new timelines as Old upto 31.12.2011 and new commencing from 01.01.2012. The time period for disposal of old cases is upto 28.02.2014.

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District Judiciary

Pendency, Institution, Disposal and Balance

01.01.2013 to 30.11.2013

Cases (Criminal+Civi l)

Pendency Institut ion Disposal Balance

Oldest (upto 31.12.08)

31445 - 24178 7267

Old (Upto 28.02.11)

191381 - 112574 78807

New (From 01.03.11)

886230 1866433 1663680 1088983

Total 1109056 1866433 1800432 1175057

Pendency, Institution, Disposal and Balance

01.12.2013 to 31.12.2013

* Cases (Criminal+Civi l)

Pendency Institut ion Disposal Balance

Old (Upto 31.12.11)

206097 - 12422 193675

New (From 01.01.12)

971750 168818 143424 997144

Total 1177847 168818 155846 1190819

* (Categories revised as Old & New with new timeline mentioned above pursuant

to meeting of NJPMC dated 23.11.2013)

In addition to performing above said assignments/tasks, the

branch under discussion also deals with bank matters such as

provision of personal loan facilities (laptops), car financing

facilities to the Judicial Officers and members of establishment of

this Court, matters regarding installation of ATM machine and

establishment of full fledge bank branch within the premises of

this Court.

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7.3 NJP/IMPLEMENTATION CELL:

This Court established NJP implementation Cell in the year 2012

to monitor the disposal of the oldest cases (filed up to 2008)

pending in District Judiciary Punjab. In addition to this, the cell

was also assigned task of monitoring old cases filed w.e.f. 01-01-

2009 to 28-02-2011. Later on, the timeline of the aforesaid

category of cases was extended up to 31.12.2011.

The cell under discussion achieved following tasks during the

year 2013:

NJP Implementation Cell monitored the disposal of revised oldest and old category cases (filed upto 31.12.2011) pending in District Judiciary Punjab on daily basis. The cell collected data of old cases from all over the Punjab through e-mail and analyzed the disposal of each judicial officer on daily basis. After analysis, the data was compiled in a consolidated statement in the form of criminal and civil cases all over the Punjab and the statement transmitted to the Law & Justice Commission of Pakistan through e-mail on daily basis for perusal of the Hon’ble Chairman NJPMC/Hon’ble Chief Justice of Pakistan.

The focal persons including Senior Civil Judges and Superintendents were telephonically contacted on daily basis to improve the disposal of old cases.

In addition to above, the cell also prepared daily disposal report

of old cases, monthly officer wise disposal report of old cases,

consolidated statement of old cases with regard to different

aspects of disposal and preparation of reports for meetings of

NJPMC.

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7.4. RESEARCH CENTER:

The Research Center was established in 2012 to provide

research-based inputs to the queries of the Hon’ble Judges in

different matters pending before them. This is not judicial / law

clerkship as it is the practice in other advanced countries like

USA. However, the aim to establish the Center is to lead us

towards the law clerkship system over the period of time .The

wing under discussion comprises an Additional Session Judge,

Senior Civil Judge and Civil judges working as Senior Research

Officer & Research Officers. The center encourages the

Research Officers to write quality papers, participate and present

in the conferences both at national and international level and to

become part of relevant organizations and sister bodies. At

present, the center is in its evolutionary stage. Thus, in the

coming months and years, and subject to available resources, it

will define its ways so that it would not only provide a research

support to the Hon’ble Judges of this Court but would also

become a research and development (R&D) backbone of the

judiciary in the Punjab.

Followings are the assignments performed by the Research

Center during the year under review:

COURT QUERIES:

This is the most critical function of the Research Center that it

receives legal and judicial questions formulated by the Hon’ble

Judges of this Court relating to the judicial work pending before

them. The SOPs provide that the queries have to be in writing

and the Center has to respond each query within two days’ time.

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It is, however, changeable in accordance with the requirement of

a specific Court on the basis of urgent nature of the work. Also

the time taken to respond a query depends upon the work load

on the Center/individual Research Officers. The Center receives

the queries through email, fax, phone and even through SMS.

Most of the times, the queries are sent by the learned Courts

through conventional means i.e. on paper.

The Query Management Information System (QMIS) has

reflected that this year (01-01-2013 to 31-12-2013) the quantum

of queries received, responded and pending is as under:

Queries received in the Center 1200 Queries responded by the Center 1156

In addition to above, the Center also performed additional

assignments that are detailed hereunder:

LECTURES / WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS, PRESENTATIONS / CONFERENCE PAPERS BY THE RESEARCH OFFICERS:

The Judicial Officers namely Mr. Sohail Shafiq, Senior Research

Officer, Mr. Muhammad Amir Munir, Research Officer and Mr.

Rai Muhammad Khan, Research Officer working in the research

center delivered lectures at Punjab Judicial Academy, Ministry of

Law, Justice and Human Rights, presented papers at the

International Judicial Conference 2013 and attended seminars at

KPK Judicial Academy, Peshawar. Detailed reports of the above

said lectures are available on the websites of the aforesaid

institutions. The aforesaid officers of the Research Center were

nominated as representatives of this Court for International

Judicial Conference 2013 arranged by Law & Justice

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Commission of Pakistan. The officers working in the research

Center also assisted the Hon’ble Judges and Judicial Officers of

this Court for preparation of lectures, seminars and conference

papers.

SPECIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE SARBAJIT COMMISSION:

Mr. Rai Muhammad Khan, Research Officer was appointed as

Special Assistant to the Sarbajit Commission headed by Hon’ble

Mr. Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi.

RESOURCES OF THE RESEARCH CENTER:

The Center acquired two very important data basis during the

year under report, 1) All India Reporter CD with all case law upto

March 2013 and 2) Lawfinder CD which has not only all India

cases but provides access to other comparative law reporters

published in India apart from AIR.

In addition to above, the Center is also using AIRWEB, which is

online version of AIR case law, online materials provided by the

LUMS, websites of the world renowned universities provide

access to many important and authentic materials.

PRESENTATION TO HON’BLE JUDGES ON AIR DATABANK:

The Center also organized a session for Hon’ble Judges of this

Court on AIR CD. It was attended by the Hon’ble Chief Justice

and other Judges of this Court and queries of Hon’ble Chief

Justice and Judges were answered by the Research Officers.

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JUDICIAL RECOGNITION OF THE RESEARCH CENTER:

The services of the Center were judicially recognized by different

Hon’ble Benches of this court. Some important cases whereby

the services of Research Center were acknowledged as under:

Gulistan Textile Mills v. Askari Bank Limited, PLD 2013 Lahore 716: 2013 CLD 2005, D.G. Khan Cement Co. v. The Federation of Pakistan, PLD 2013 Lahore 693, Barrister Sardar Muhammad v. The Federation of Pakistan, PLD 2013 Lahore 343 : 2013 PLC (CS) 625, Liaqat Ali Chughtai v. The Federation of Pakistan, PLD 2013 Lahore 413 : 2012 PLC (CS) 1062, Sethi and Sethi v. The Federation of Pakistan, 2012 PTD 1869, Chen One Store v. Federal Board of Revenue, 2012 PTD 1815 and Shabbir Ahmad v. Kiran Khurshid, 2012 CLC 1236.

BENCH BOOKS, MONTHLY CASE LAW UPDATES AND ELECTRONIC BULLETIN (E-BULLETIN):

The Center prepared the general bench book, which contained

important case law of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of Pakistan on

various topics. The center also designed and developed election

bank book for the convenience of Hon’ble judges of this Court.

The Library Committee comprising Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sardar

Tariq Masood and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah

appreciated the performance of the Research Center qua

preparation of Bench Book with the following remarks:

“Lahore High Court Research Center has done a commendable job. This booklet may be considered as the init ia l bench book on Elect ion Laws with the hope that the Research Center wil l soon turn this into a complete case book in the near future”.

The Center published ten issues of Volume-I of “Monthly Case

Law Update” during the year 2013. The Center also published e-

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Bulletin, which provided information qua current decision of

different Supreme Courts around the world, legal development

and information regarding conference/workshops. During the year

under discussion, the Center published 26 e-Bulletins, which are

available on the official website of this court.

CAPACITY BUILDING OF THE RESEARCH OFFICERS:

For the improvement of the research skills of the Research

Officers, a lecture / presentation on the topic of “Legal Writing for

Judges” by Emeritus Professor of Legal Studies Mr. Andy Khan

(former law professor at the Athabasca University, Canada) was

arranged. On the directions of Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor

Ali Shah, the Research Officers also participated in different

workshops and seminars in LUMS.

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Chapter No : 8

Instructions to District Judiciary

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LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE.

No. 09 /NJP Imp. Cell Dated 19.01.2013

From

The Registrar , Lahore High Court, Lahore.

To

The District and Sessions Judges, in the Punjab.

Subject: DISPOSAL OF NEW OLDEST CATEGORY (UPTO 31.12.2008) CASES.

Dear Sir,

I am directed to refer to the subject cited above and to state that the Hon’ble Chief Justice has been pleased to appreciate the strenuous efforts of the judicial of f icers for deciding a huge number of New Oldest Category (upto 31.12.2008) Cases in the last two months i.e. November and December, 2012. His lordship has been pleased to direct to maintain the same momentum and pace and decide the backlog posit ively t i l l February 28, 2013.

2. You are, therefore, required to impress upon all Judicial Off icers working under your supervision and administrat ion to make their optimum efforts to achieve the target posit ively within the target date by avoiding the technical it ies.

SD/- (MUHAMMAD HAFEEZ ULLAH KHAN)

Distr ict & Sessions Judge (I &R/NJP) For Registrar

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No. 3556 /NJP Imp. Cell Dated 08.02.2013

From


To


Subject: DISPOSAL OF THE OLDEST CATEGORY CASES FILED UPTO DECEMBER, 2000.

Dear Sir,

I am directed to refer to the subject cited above and to state that the Authority has been pleased to direct you to decide the oldest cases f i led upto December, 2000 within a period of two weeks posit ively by conduct ing proceedings of the said cases on day to day basis under your direct supervision. Rest of the New Oldest Category Cases f i led upto 31.12.2008 be also decided in accordance with the earlier direction given on the subject. Time limit shal l not be extended.

2. You are directed to ensure the compliance in letter and spirit . Please acknowledge the receipt.

SD/-

(MUHAMMAD HAFEEZ ULLAH KHAN) Distr ict & Sessions Judge (I &R/NJP) For Registrar

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No. 30593/RHC/NJP Imp. Cell Dated Lahore the 6

t h November, 2013

From


To


Subject: MONITORING THE PERFORMANCE OF JUDICIAL OFFICERS TO ACHIEVE THE TARGET OF DISPOSAL OF OLD CASES (FILED SINCE 01.01.2009 TO 28.02.2011) .

Dear Sir,

I am directed to refer to the subject cited above and to state that the Authority has been pleased to observe that District Judiciary Punjab has performed very well by deciding 22306 old cases in a short span of t ime (w.e.f . 24.09.2013 to 31.10.2013) which deserves appreciation. Moreover, the performance of per Judicial Off icer in disposal of old cases in the fol lowing districts is applauded: -

Bahawalnagar Bhakkar Chakwal Chiniot D.G. Khan Gujranwala Gujrat Jhelum Kasur Khushab Layyah Lodhran M.B. Din Narowal Pakpattan R.Y. Khan Sahiwal Sargodha Sheikhupura Vehari

2. You are, therefore, directed to impress upon the Judicial Off icers working in your respect ive distr icts to further improve the pace of disposal of old cases so as to achieve the target within t ime.

SD/- (SARDAR AHMED NAEEM)

REGISTRAR

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No. 34645/RHC/NJP Imp. Cell Dated 20.12.2013

From

Member Inspection Team, Lahore High Court, Lahore.

To


Subject: DISPOSAL OF CASES UNDER NATIONAL JUDICIAL POLICY, 2009.

Dear Sir,

With reference to letter No. F.1 (JS-Imp) 2009/NJPMC/LJCP Law and Just ice Commission of Pakistan (Supreme Court Building) Islamabad, dated December 19, 2013, I am directed to state that dai ly disposal reports regarding oldest cases (up to 2008) and old cases (from 01.01.2009 to 28.02.2011) pending in District Judiciary are being provided to this off ice for onward transmission to Law and Just ice Commission of Pakistan (Supreme Court Building) Islamabad. In the meeting of NJPMC held on 23.11.2013, categories of cases have been revised as ‘ Old’ and ‘New’ as communicated already vide letter No. 32739/RHC/NJP dated December 02, 2013, with the direct ion to clear the backlog of old cases up to 28

t h

February, 2014. Al l the cases f i led up to 31.12.2011 are revised as old category.

2. It is, therefore, requested to provide the dai ly disposal report of Revised Old Category cases (f i led up to 31.12.2011) from now onward to this off ice through e -mail at [email protected] for onward transmission to Law and Just ice Commission of Pakistan (Sup reme Court Building) Islamabad.

SD/- (HABIB ULLAH AMIR)

Member Inspection Team

mailto:[email protected]

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No. 11934 MIT/HC/SCP Dated 10.04.2013

From The Registrar, Lahore High Court, Lahore.

To The District and Sessions Judges, in the Punjab except Islamabad.

Subject: ERADICATION OF CORRUPTION AMONGST

THE COURT PERSONNEL OF THE DISTRICT JUDICIARY.

Dear Sir,

I am directed to state that the Hon’ble Chief Just ice of Pakistan while disposing of a complaint bearing HRC No. 11970-S/2013, moved by Mr. Ashley Gomes, Advocate, B-167, SMCHS, Karachi, on the subject (copy enclosed) has been pleased to pass the following order.

“Al l the Registrars of High Court of the Country be directed to issue a c ircular to al l the D&SJJ under their command to fol low the str ict compliance that the Presiding Off icers should not leave the l i t igants on the mercy of Reader/Peshkar and they must si t in the Court t i l l they exhaust board of the day by proceeding the matter and i f date is given then by adjusting the diary of the Court and convenience of the l i t igants but not deviating from NJP”

2. I am, therefore, to request you kindly to circulate the aforequoted order of the Hon’ble Chief Justice of Pakistan, amongst the all concerned and to ensure str ict compliance thereof, in letter and spirit .

SD/- (SARDAR AHMED NAEEM)

REGISTRAR

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No. 34598/AMIT-I/HC/2013 Dated 20.12.2013

From


To The District and Sessions Judges, in the Punjab.

Subject: CORRESPONDENCE.

Dear Sir,

I am directed to convey that it has been not iced that the correspondence addressed to this Hon’ble Court is of ten bereft of reference number which creates dif f iculty and it makes onerous to trace the proper f i les. Accordingly, you are requested that in future every correspondence addressed to the Worthy Registrar, must bear reference number of the letter of this Court, in order to avoid any inconvenience in del ivery of the letter to the concerned branch.

SD/-

(HABIB ULLAH AMIR) Member Inspection Team

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No. 1940 MIT/HC/ATC Dated 10.06.2013

From


To All the Presiding Officer, Anti-Terrorism Courts in Punjab.

Subject: DAILY PERFORMANCE REPORT.

Dear Sir,

I am directed to refer to the subject captioned above and to enclose herewith a proforma in pursuance of the decision of the meeting held on 08.06.2013 chaired by Hon’ble Mr. Just ice Manzoor Ahmad Malik, Administrat ive Judge of Ant i-Terrorism Courts in Punjab.

You are, therefore, requested to submit the dai ly performance report of ATA cases on the prescribed proforma, before leaving the off ice dai ly, through Fax.

SD/- (MUHAMMAD YOUSAF AUJLA)

Addl: Member Inspect ion Team -1

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Chapter No: 9

Important Notifications, Circulars & Officer Orders

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LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE

No. 20131/Bldgs/B.A.I Dated Lahore the 20 June, 2013.

C I R C U L A R The Nation is in the grip of a serious energy crisis that is not only affecting al l sectors of the economy but also causing serious unrest amongst various segments of the society. As the situation stands today, there are hardly any immediate solut ions to resolve the issue. Although, the Government at al l levels is trying its best to balance the demand and supply of energy by taking init iat ives to ut i l ize the indigenous resources for energy generat ion, yet, the energy generati on is not the only solut ion to br idge the supply-demand gap. This can also be addressed through various conservation measures. 2. I t has been observed with great concern that the off icers and off icial of this Court do not pay attention to this serious issue and normally it has been foun d that in spite of the fact that the Hon’ble Judges are sit t ing in their Ret ir ing Rooms / Chambers, the staff of the Courts do not take pain to switch off unnecessary l ights and air condit ioners. Same posit ion is in existence in the off ices / branches of t his Court. 3. The Hon’ble Chief Justice has taken serious not ice of this fact and has observed that actual ly a change of att itude and a change of l ife style is needed at the institut ional level which should be exemplif ied by the privi leged and fol lowed by al l segments of the society that have access to electric ity. For the Judiciary to play its part in the nat ional cause, his lordship has been pleased to direct the following measures for energy conservation in this Court in order to mit igate the energy shortage in the province:-

i) The moment Hon’ble Judges leave the Court Rooms for Retir ing Rooms after their judicial work, it shall be the responsibi l ity of concerned staff to switch off al l unnecessary l ights and air condit ioners.

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i i ) Every off icer / of f icial of branches / of f ices of this Court, whenever he leaves the branch / of f ice, he / she shall personally switch off all unnecessary electr ic l ights and air condit ioners.

i i i) This wil l also be the duty of every off icial of branches / off ices to power off unnecessary l ights and air condit ioners if the branches / of f ices are found not under use at that part icular t ime.

iv) After the close of off ice hours at 4:00 p.m, the air condit ioners instal led in the off ices may be turned off.

v) However, the off icers / of f icials who sit late, maybe al lowed to turn on only one air condit ioner in case of hot weather in a way that the off icers / of f icial of adjoining off ices / branches may sit together in one off ice to avail the faci l ity of air condit ioner.

vi) The Supervisory Off icers wil l keep watch for ensuring correct usage of electr ical appliances in their respect ive off ices as well as for strict compliance of the above direct ions.

vi i) The Accounts Branch shall also submit a report f rom next month that what dif ference with reference to uti l i ty bi l l etc. has occurred after issuance of this Circular.

4. It is expected from every off icer / of f icial of this Court that he wil l contr ibute towards this moral obligation to achieve the goals of energy conservat ion for overcoming the energy crisis. SD/-

(SARDAR AHMED NAEEM) REGISTRAR

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CIRCULAR

The Hon’ble Chief Just ice has been pleased to

approve Pantone Colour Code 343-C, as the logo colour of

Lahore High Court, Lahore and its Benches. The Same logo

colour would be used for pr inting on off icial items,

stationery, crockery and l ibrary st ickers etc.

2. The Addit ional Registrar (Finance) and all the

Addl. Registrars at Hon’ble Benches shal l keep the soft copy

of the off icial logo with the approved colour for further

pr int ing.

SD/-

(MUHAMMAD HAFEEZ ULLAH KHAN) Distr ict & Sessions Judge (I &R/NJP) For Registrar

Endst No: 16828 /L.12 Computer Dated. 16/5/2013

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O R D E R

The Hon’ble Chief Just ice has been pleased to establish

Liaison Off ice in this Court temporarily to faci l itate during

the conduct of General Elections 2013, with immediate

effect. Syed Amir Ali Shah, Assistant Registrar (Legislation)

of this Court shal l look after the Liaison Off ice, in addit ion to

his own duties.

SD/- (MUHAMMAD SHAHID HUSSAIN) Addi t ional Regist rar (Est t . ) For Registrar Endst. No . 423 / Gaz.1 .V.Z.2(a) Dated Lahore the 28.03.2013

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C I R C U L A R The recent severe earthquake has lef t our so

many Baloch brethren shelterless and homeless. As a result

of this natural calamity, the earthquake effectees have been

compelled to lead a very pathet ic and deplorable l ife. Each

effectee is indeed, in dire need of basic necessit ies of l i fe

for survival. This alarming situation enjoins upon us to

motivate the members of the establ ishment of this Court to

generously make monetary contr ibut ion for the wretched

earthquake effectees in order to enable them to have a sigh

of rel ief in this event of sorrow and grief .

2. In the ambient circumstances, al l the

Supervisory Off icers are called upon not only to themselves

graciously contr ibute but also play a pivotal role to motivate

the staff working under them for making adequate monetary

contribution in the “Lahore High Court Relief Fund” in the

off ice of Treasury Off icer of this Court.

SD/- (MUHAMMAD SHAHID HUSSAIN) Addi t ional Regist rar (Est t . ) For Registrar No. 698. Gaz.1 /Pen Dated Lahore the 21

s t October, 2013

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Chapter No : 10

Head Notes of Important Judgments

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P L D 2013 Lahore 598

Before Umar Ata Bandial, J

IMTIAZ AHMAD KAIFI---Petitioner

Versus

GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB and others --- Respondents

Writ Petit ion No. 11372, 11480 and 11751 of 2013, heard on

15 t h May, 2013.

(a) Punjab Law Department Manual, 1938---

----Para. 1.18(4)---Const itut ion of Pakistan, Art.199---

Const itut ional jur isdict ion of High Court ---Scope---Addit ional

Advocate General/Assistant Advocate General holding off ice

during pleasure of Government ---Removal f rom such

off ice/employment without assigning any reasons---

Justif iabi l i ty---Such employment at pleasure (of Government)

was just iciable. [p.604]A

Muhammad Yasin v. Federation of Pakistan

through Secretary, Establ ishment Divis ion, Is lamabad and

others PLD 2012 SC 132 ref .

(b) Constitution of Pakistan---

---Art.100---Attorney General for Pakistan holding off ice during

the pleasure of the President of Pakistan ---Removal f rom

off ice---Scope---Loss of conf idence---Appointment of Attorney

General involved an element of lawyer -cl ient relat ionship and

loss of conf idence therefore, was a very relevant cr iter ion for

withdrawal of pleasure. [p.604] B

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B.P. Singhal v. Union of India and another (2010)

6 SCC 331

(c) Punjab Law Department Manual, 1938---

----Para. 1.18(4)---Constitut ion of Pakistan, Arts.25 & 199---

Employees Eff iciency, Discipl ine and Accountabi l i ty Act (XII of

2006),S.4(b)(v) ---Constitut ional Pet it ion---Addit ional Advocate

General/Assistant Advocate General (Law Off icers) holding

off ice during pleasure of Government ---Removal of selected

Law Off icers by Caretaker Provincial Government without

assigning any reasons or providing intel l ig ible criter ia for

terminat ion---Legality---Discr imination---By way of impugned

order of Caretaker Provincial Government 13 Assistant

Advocates General and 7 Addit ional Advocates General (Law

Off icers) were “removed from off ice with immediate effect”

without assigning any reasons---Pleas of removed law off icers

were that their removal was arbitrary as it was select ive

without reference to any criter ia in targeting t hem; that no

intel l ig ible dif ferentia dist inguished them from the law of f icers

that had been retained in service, therefore, their removal

order was discriminatory in effect ---Plea of Caretaker

Provincial Government that appointment of Addit ional

Advocate General and Assistant Advocate General was at the

pleasure of the government, therefore, they might be

terminated at any t ime without assigning any reasons ---

Val idity--- law off icers in question had been removed from

off ice without assigning any reason---Some just if icat ion for

removal f rom service of a law off icer had to exist because such

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action was just iciable to assess its fairness ---Since in the

present case no reasons were assigned by the Caretaker

Provincial Government for removing law of f icers in ques t ion,

therefore, it could be interpreted as loss of conf idence of the

government in them---On account of pecul iar nature of lawyer -

cl ient relat ionship attendant to the post of law of f icers in

question, the requirement for disclosure of reasons for removal

f rom service might arguably be dispensed, however ever the

manner in which they were removed from the off ice, namely by

their individual select ion whi lst many other law off icers had

been retained in off ice created dif ferentiat ion between two

groups of law of f icers---As no reasons for impugned action

were given, therefore, a heavy burden was cast on the

Caretaker Provincial Government to just ify select ive loss of

conf idence in the removed law of f icers ---Presuming that law

off icers in quest ion had been removed by Caretaker Provincial

Government to maintain str ict neutral ity as they had been

appointed by the (previous) pol it ical government, then the

retention of other law of f icers appointed by the same

(previous) pol it ical government had no just if icat ion ---al legat ion

of discrimination as well founded on such ground ---

Terminology used in the removal order namely “removal f rom

service” had a negative connotat ion in the context of

government employment, and was penalty under relevant

provincial discipl inary law, namely S.4(b)(v) of Punjab

Employees Eff iciency, Discipl ine and Accountabi l i ty Act

(2006)---Removed law of f icers had been fundamental r ight

under Art. 25 of the constitut ion that identical ly placed persons

must be treated identical ly dif ference between law o ff icers,

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who had been removed from off ice against those who had been

retained had to be based on intell ig ible cr iter ia ----

Classif icat ion adopted by Caretaker Provincial Government

was arbitrary and violated Art. 25 of the Const itut ion -Removal

of law of f icers in question was declared to be i l legal and of no

legal ef fect that constitut ion pet it ion was al lowed accordingly

(d) Constitution of Pakistan---

----Arts. 224(IA) & 218(3) ---Caretaker Government, duty of ---

Scope---Discret ion of Caretaker Government to app oint non-

part isan off icers---Scope---Caretaker government had no

pol it ics---Caretaker Government shared duty of the Elect ion

Commission of Pakistan to conduct the General Elect ion

Honestly, just ly, fair ly and in accordance with law and that

corrupt pract ices were guarded against ---Caretaker

Government had discret ion to make changes that strengthened

its abi l i ty to discharge its const itut ional obl igat ion ---Signif icant

aspect of said constitut ional obligat ion of a caretaker

government was to demonstrate and maintain str ict neutral ity

in the discharge of i ts functions, inter al ia, by appoint ing non -

part isan of f icers.

[241]

2013 C L C 1856

[Lahore]

Before I jaz ul Ahsan, Sayyed Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi

and Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, JJ

CH. ZAHID IQBAL -----Petitioner

Versus

RETURNING OFFICER NA-162 (Sahiwal--I I I) and

3 others ----Respondents

Writ Petit ion No. 9726 of 2013, decided on 7t h

May,

2013.

(a) Representation of the People Act (LXXXV of 1976) ---

- - -S. 99(1-A)(H) & 14---Cr iminal Procedure Code (V of 1898) Ss.

426 & 430---Const i tu t ion of Pak istan, Arts. 63 (1)(h) & 199 -- -

Const i tu t ional pet i t ion ---Disquali f icat ions for membership of Maj l is -

e-Shoora (Par l iament) --- “Convic t ion and sentence”, d ist inct ion - - -

Concurrent running of sentence---Ef fect on quantum of sentence for

purpose of Art . 63(1)(h) of Const i tu t ion -- -Scope---Suspens ion of

sentence d id not mean suspens ion of convic t ion ---Peti t ioner

impugned order of Return ing Of f icer whereby h is nominat ion papers

were rejected as he was convic ted and cumulat ive ly sentenced to a

per iod more than two years ---Content ion of the pet i t ioner was inter

a l ia that per S.430 Cr . P.C. , judgment of Tr ial Court was not f ina l

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t i l l such t ime his pending appeal was decided and therefore the

adverse ef fec ts of convict ion could not be brought on an accused

whose appeal was pending espec ia l ly where the sentence was a lso

suspended---Pet i t ioner fur ther contended that he had be en

cumulat ive ly sentenced to th ir teen months as his sentences were to

run concurrent ly---Val id i ty---Pet i t ioner had been sentenced to

th ir teen months on each count and the cumulat ive ef fect of the

three d if ferent convic t ions was that he had been sentenced for an

aggregate per iod of th ir ty-n ine (39) months-- -Although the benef i t o f

running the sentences concurrent ly had been granted to the

pet i t ioner , the same did not mean that he had not been sentenced

for a per iod of th i r ty-n ine months---Concurrent running of a

sentence was for the purpose of calculat ing the actual per iod for

which the convict would be held in jai l i f h is appeal d id not succeed,

however , the same had no ef fect on the quantum of sentence

awarded by the Tr ial Court on each count for the purpose of Ar t .

63(1)(h) of the Const i tu t ion read with S.99(1 -A)(h) of the

Representat ion of the People Act, 1976---Content ion of the

pet i t ioner that t i l l the t ime appeal was f inal ly dec ided, h is convict ion

would be deemed to be held in abeyance could not be accepted as

nothing in the language of S.426 or 430 Cr.P.C. suppor ted said

content ion---Convict ion was complete as soon as the person

charged had been found gui l t y by a cour t of competent jur isd ict ion

and nominat ion papers of the pet i t ioner were l iable to be rejec ted

on the ground that only h is sentence had been suspended which d id

not mean that h is convict ion had a lso been suspended ---Suspens ion

of sentence without a spec if ic order for suspens ion of convic t ion d id

not mean or inc lude suspens ion of convict ion, and despi te

suspens ion of sentence, convict ion would remain intact - --Dist inct ion

ex isted between a convict ion and sentence and suspens ion of a

sentence did not mean automat ic suspens ion of convic t ion ---No bar

however ex isted on the Appel late Cour t under S.426, Cr. P.C. to

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suspend sentence and a lso suspend the convic t ion in appr opr iate

cases where an appl icat ion was moved before such cour t i f the

adverse consequences of maintain ing such convic t ion were brought

to the not ice of the Appel late Court and a spec if ic prayer was made

in such regard---No i l legal i t y ex is ted in the impugned order ---

const i tut ional pet i t ion being wi thout mer i t , was d ismissed, in

c ircumstances.

Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan V. Syed Yousaf Raza Gi l lan i and

another 2008 CLC 240 d is t inguished.

Abdul Kabir V. The State PLD 1990 SC 823; Pir Mazhar -u l-Haque v.

Elect ion Tr ibunal-1 2003 CLC 300; Ravi Kant S. Pate l v.

Sarvabhoma S. Bagal i 2007) 1 Supreme Cour t Cases 673 and KC

Sareen v CBI (2001) SCC 584 re l.

(b) Constitution of Pakistan---

Art . 63 ( I ) (g) Representat ion of the People Act (LXXXV of 1976),

S.99(I-A)(h)-- -Disqual i f icat ions for membership of Maj l is -e-Shoora

(Par l iament) ---Concurrent running of sentences had no ef fec t on the

quantum of sentence for the purpose of - - -Ar t . 63 ( I) (h) of the

Const i tu t ion---Concurrent running of a sentence was for t he purpose

of calculat ing the actual per iod for which a convic ted person would

be held in ja i l i f h is appeal d id not succeed, however , the same had

no ef fect on the quantum of sentence awarded by the Tr ia l Court on

each count for the purpose of - - -Art . 63 ( I) (h) of the Const i tut ion

read wi th S. 99( I -A)(h) of the Representat ion of the People Act,

1976.

(c) Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898) ---

- - -Ss. 426 & 430---Suspens ion of sentence pending appeal ---Scope

and ef fect---Convict ion was complete as soon as the person

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charged had been found gui l t y by a cour t of competent jur isd ict ion --

-Suspens ion of sentence wi thout a spec if ic order for suspens ion of

convic t ion d id not mean or inc lude suspension of convict ion, and

despite suspension of sentence, convic t ion would remain intact - --

Dist inc t ion ex isted between a “convic t ion” and “sentence” and

suspens ion of a sentence d id not mean automat ic suspens ion of

convic t ion---No bar , however, ex is ted on the Appel late Cour t under

S.426, Cr . P.C. to suspend sentence and a lso suspend the

convic t ion in appropr iate cases where an appl icat ion was moved

before such cour t i f the adverse consequences of mainta in ing such

convic t ion were brought to the not ice of the Appel late Cour t and a

spec if ic prayer was made in such regard.

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