Other States - Punjab   

Punjab & Haryana High Court puts cases on fast track

Chandigarh: Alarmed over high pendency of cases, the Punjab and Haryana High Court will from now on categorise writ petitions based on their urgency and set in motion a monitoring mechanism for every case from its filing to its disposal. The Punjab and Haryana High Court Case Flow Management Rules categorise the writ petitions other than the writ of habeas corpus, into fast, normal and slow track depending on the urgency with which the matter should be dealt with.

The petitions in the fast track shall invariably be disposed off within a period not exceeding six months while the petitions in the normal track should not take longer than a year. The petitions in the slow track, subject to the pendency of other cases in the court, should ordinarily be disposed off within two years, a statement said here on Thursday.

According to the Rules, whenever an interim order of stay or injunction is granted in respect of liability to pay tax or demolition or eviction from public premises the case shall be put on the fast track. Similarly, all matters involving admission in educational institutions, tenders would also be put on the fast track.

“These matters cannot brook delays in disposal. The senior officers of the High Court, nominated for this purpose shall at monthly interval, monitor the stage of each case likely to come up for hearing before each bench during that month which have been allocated to the different tracks,” the court said. — PTI

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Punjab & Haryana High Court puts cases on fast track
Many witnesses turn hostile in Badal case

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu