GANGTOK, 14 June: Following a surprise inspection of the lower courts here today, the Sikkim High Court Chief Justice Permod Kohli and Justice Sonam P Wangdi seized several court files pertaining to court cases suspecting gross irregularities in them (court files).
The surprise inspection, sources in High Court inform, was necessitated by a string of complaints received by the High Court against the functioning of a section of the lower courts here. Although details of the documents seized by the Justices today could not be ascertained, sources add that the High Court is clearly dissatisfied with what it sensed in its inspection today.
Chief Justice Permod Kohli and Justice Wangdi arrived at the lower courts here at Sichey shortly after noon today and were there for around three hours and made a close assessment of the working of the lower courts.
The Sichey complex houses the District & Sessions Court [East & North], two Special Division courts, one court of Chief Judicial Magistrate and one Judicial Magistrate court. The Justices inspected the workings and documents of all the Courts today.
Highlighting that the functioning of the lower judiciary comes under the watch of the High Court, some strong measures can be expected next, sources add.
The headline to your news item is misleading...i think u shuld have clearly spelt out which lower court since there are courts in South -west and east-west, and various judges presiding over them!! so finally the two heads woke up to the laxity of the judicial officers!! well with the inauguration of the State judicial academy, may be they'll be trained more in ethical working and timely working and timely justice to the poor and needy who are mostly harassed by the system!!!
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