HC issues guidelines for lower court judges

The High Court has issued a set of guidelines for the lower court judges concerned for properly conducting judicial enquiry into the cases and dealing with them and to solve the problems they (judges) are facing.

According to a guideline, the sessions judges must hold a judicial conference at least once in a month to know the hurdles or problems they are facing in carrying out their performance and to find solutions. 

The HC bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar has come up with the guideline in a verdict that was delivered on February 15 this year following a revision petition filed by one Aynul alias Abdul Mannan from Gaibandha against an order passed by the sessions judge of Gaibandha in July 2012 on a Naraji application.

The HC recently released the full text of the verdict after the judges signed it on May 29.

In the full text of the verdict, the HC said in exercising the criminal revisional power bestowed upon the sessions judges, they should not shrug off their duty and responsibility of revising the impugned judgement/order by simply agreeing or disagreeing the lower court judgement or order. 

“They (sessions judges) are statutory obliged to delve deep into the question of law in the context of the given facts of the concerned case and, then, record their own views/reflecting their independent performance and competence,” the HC said in the verdict.

The HC said in the verdict, “They (sessions judges) must be judicious and quick in disposing of the revisional matters filed against any order so that the general people cannot blame the judiciary that the enquiry or trial of a case is delayed due to the poor and show performance of the courts.”

Immediately before retirement from service, the district and sessions judges should be more serious in performing their duties at such juncture of their service, so that their junior colleagues, the Supreme Court, the advocates and the court-staff-members remember them forever with admiration.

“They should put in their best efforts to earn recognition from the citizenry that the judiciary is the most dynamic and patriotic organ of the state, being maned and run by honest, brilliant, vigilant and skilled officers,” the HC said in the verdict.