# as a result of the inspection of their offices by the Inspector of Offices are not repeated

- **Citation:** C.L. NO. 51/X-C-10
- **Court:** Allahabad High Court
- **Decided:** 1950-08-26
- **Case number:** C.L. NO. 51/X-C-10
- **Source:** https://unisonlegal.in/judgment/allahabad-high-court/as-a-result-of-the-inspection-of-their-offices-by-the-inspector-of-offices-are-162641
- **Pages:** 1

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C.L. NO. 51/X-C-10 DATED 26TH AUGUST, 1950

District Judges shall see that the defects and irregularities brought to their notice
as a result of the inspection of their offices by the Inspector of Offices are not repeated.
8.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
G.L. NO. 12/H-1 DATED 14TH FEBRUARY, 1948

The Court has noticed that in spite of the provisions in the rules and the
instructions issued by it, District Judges have not been inspecting their subordinate courts
regularly, and in the majority of cases inspections are not as detailed and exhaustive as
necessary. It is perhaps not realized that inspections are intended to serve a specific
purpose, and that purpose is defeated if District Judges inspect the courts subordinate to
them only superficially. Inspections should be given the same attention and importance as
other administrative work.
C.L. NO. 11/H-2-51 DATED 31ST JANUARY, 1915

The Court views with concern a general tendency on the part of the District and
Sessions Judges to overlook the instructions issued by it from time to time, particularly in
the matter of the inspection of subordinate courts. An occasional lapse may be
overlooked but a repeated breach of these instructions betrays a lack of appreciation of
the object of such instructions.
District Judges would be well advised to keep handy at one place a complete list
of the directions issued by the Court on the subject of inspections. A cursory glance at
these instructions immediately before an inspection is made would focus the attention of
the inspecting officer on the points requiring his attention and would make the inspection
much more methodical and useful than an average inspection is at present.
An inspection carried out in the spirit of a mere formal compliance of the
instructions issued by the Court is bound to defeat the very object of such inspections and
cannot lead to any useful result. The most common defects noticed in inspection notes are
indicated below:
(a)
Inspections are not made regularly. To avoid this, District Judges should
maintain a statement showing the dates on which various courts and
offices were inspected by presiding officers or by the District Judge. This
statement should be examined by the District Judge from time to time and
necessary instructions issued to the presiding officers of the courts
subordinate to him. It will also remind him about his own inspections.
(b)
Inspections are not done in the prescribed manner. If each officer adopts
his own method, there can be no uniformity. This leads to confusion. The
method indicated by the Court should be adhered to so far as practicable.
Copies of inspection notes should, as a rule, be forwarded to this Court
within a month from the date of inspection.
(c)
Confidential notes by the District Judge concerning the presiding officers
of the courts inspected are not sent alongwith copies of inspection notes.
This should be done in future. In any case the confidential notes should be