In yet another initiative,
the Department of Justice has planned to set up twenty Fast Track
Courts in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. This follows
a high level meeting held here yesterday evening under the Chairmanship
of Additional Secretary (Justice), Shri Surendra Nath wherein
Joint Secretary (Union Territories), Ministry of Home Affairs,
Law Secretary, Delhi Government, District and Sessions Judge,
Delhi and Registrar General of the High Court of Delhi participated.
It was agreed in
the meeting that the Department of Justice would take up with
the Ministry of Urban Development the proposal to make available
the vacant Vikas Minar building at ITO in Indraprastha for the
Fast Track Courts in Delhi. It was felt that the main constraint
was going to be the availability of accommodation for the proposed
Fast Track Courts.
It was also agreed
that the Department of Justice would request the National Capital
Territory Government of Delhi to create 20 additional posts in
the Higher Judicial Service at the sessions courts level to operate
Fast Track Courts in the budget of 2003-2004.
The proposed Fast
Track Courts in Delhi have been necessitated to tackle criminal
cases expeditiously in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
The Fast Track Courts
in Delhi are outside the ambit of the 11th Finance
Commission which recommended setting up of 1734 Fast Track Courts
in the States all over the country and not in the Union Territories
as envisaged in the scheme of the Constitution and the Rule of
Law.
