In perhaps the first of its kind in the state, a sub-divisional magistrate held an all-day revenue court on Friday, during which he heard at least 100 cases, some pending since 2005, and disposed of 80. . District Collector Bharti Dixit has decided to organize such full-day courts in other sub-divisions also in view of the presence of farmers in Jhalawar’s Manahor police station and has given instructions to the concerned sub-divisional officers.
For the hearing of revenue matters in the Sub-Divisional Magistrate Court, at least three meetings in a week are fixed most of the time. However, some of them get missed due to busy schedule of advocates in other matters and presiding officers in administrative matters, while others get delayed as litigants get entangled in their personal matters, leading to pendency.
Manohar police station sub-divisional magistrate Abhishek Charan said the non-functioning of courts during Covid-19 further increased the pendency and denied justice to the farmers.
He then conceptualized a full-day court as a solution and conveyed the idea to the district collector, who after due consideration rectified it, he said. At least 100 revenue cases related to illegal encroachment, permanent injunction and partition suits were shortlisted for hearing.
The court ran from 7.30 in the morning to around 7.30 in the office of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate. Charan said, unlike Lok Adalat, where cases are decided by mutual consent, proper legal proceedings, one-to-one hearings and arguments are made and decrees are given during the entire day’s court. .
Collector Bharti Dixit said that for the first time in the state a full day revenue court was organized during which a large number of litigants appeared and the revenue cases were settled.
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