Judge who disposed of 111 cases in one day faces lawyers' ire

When a judge in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district disposed of a record 111 cases in a single day last week, little did he realise that this will attract ire from members of his own legal fraternity.

While common people have welcomed his move to ensure speedy justice, it has left a section of lawyers at Mangalgiri city civil court fuming.

Junior Civil Judge J.V.V. Satyanarayana Murthy says he is determined to pass more judgments in bulk to provide much-needed relief to litigants. But the lawyers conveyed to him that at this speed they would turn jobless.

A group of lawyers, who earn a fee of Rs.100 to Rs.200 for each hearing, met the judge and urged him to go slow, an official of the Bar Association told IANS.

'The lawyers told him that if he continues delivering judgments at this speed they will suffer starvation. The judge said he is acting in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code and nobody can question him. He said that litigants should not be made to suffer for the fees of lawyers,' A. Sanjeeva Reddy, founder president od the Mangalgiri Bar Association, said.

In the three-and-a-half months since he assumed office, Murthy has disposed of nearly 500 cases, including 111 last Thursday. The court has another 1,000 cases pending. There are an estimated 30 million cases pending in courts across the country. Read More................Judge who disposed of 111 cases in one day faces lawyers' ire

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175 years later, Case goes on and on

Kolkata: The wheels of Indian justice grind slowly, but there are times when they don't move at all — as has happened with the record-breaking case of an erstwhile Bengali royal family's property. The matter, which is now in the Calcutta High Court, has been pending for 175 years, making it perhaps the country's longest-running case. Read full story....................175 years later, West Bengal case goes on and on

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Rs 20,000 dispute is settled after 33 years

MUMBAI: The sum in dispute was a mere Rs 20,000 but the matter dragged on in courts for more than three decades. Read more......................Rs 20,000 dispute is settled after 33 years

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Pet Dog case drags for 10 yrs

In India it is very common that legal court cases goes on for years together but what you would call to it, if a dispute between neighbors over a pet dog became a court case and lasted for 10 years. Ironically, it remained pending for nearly seven years in the Supreme Court.

Mohammad Rafique and Nazir Mohammad were neighbors residing at Dadapir Roja, Kachani Masjid, Jamalpura in Ahmedabad. Rafique used to object to the 'nuisance' created by Nazir's pet dog. When his complaints had no effect on the pet's owner, he persuaded the Ahmedabad municipality to trap the dog when it was moving on the street.

On the evening of May 22, 1997, Nazir confronted Rafique as to why he got his dog trapped by the civic authority. Rafique's curt reply that "the dog was creating a nuisance on the street" angered Nazir who along with his associates rained blows on him.

After the assault, Rafique walked to the police station and lodged a complaint before going to hospital. The police filed a charge sheet against Nazir and his associates accusing them of assaulting Rafique. In March 1999, the magistrate found the case to be a fight on the spur of the moment and acquitted the accused. The state appealed in the HC, challenging the acquittal. Six months later, the HC upheld the trial court verdict.

The state realized its folly in pursuing a trivial case till the HC level and declined to go any further. Dissatisfied, Rafique moved the SC challenging the HC order. Now a Bench comprising Justices B N Agrawal, P P Naolekar and B Sudershan Reddy dismissed the case on Thursday, but not before expressing annoyance over such trivial litigation traveling up to the level of SC, meant to decide important constitutional issues and questions.

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