# 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:** 1948-02-14
- **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-162642
- **Pages:** 2

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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
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forwarded to the Court as soon as after the submission of a copy of the
inspection note as possible.
(d)
Full particulars of cases pending in this Court or any other court on
account of which proceedings are held up in the subordinate court
inspected are not always found in the inspection notes and this entails
much avoidable correspondence. In future, full particulars of such cases
should be given in the notes.
While inspecting a subordinate court, special care should be taken to see if the
instructions issued by the Court, in the matter of arrangement of cause list, fixation of
dates, examination of parties, clearance of pleadings, proper maintenance of diary and
order-sheet, settlement of issues, early preparation of decrees, issue of commissions and
expeditious disposal of execution and miscellaneous cases, etc. are followed by the
presiding officers.
C.L. NO. 49 DATED 22ND APRIL, 1970

In view of the fact that the annual remarks are recorded for the period April 1 to
March 31 and the work of inspection by the District Judges has increased greatly, the
instructions contained in Courts‟ General letter no. 12/1, dated February 14, 1948 and
Circular Letter no. 11/H-2-51, dated January 31, 1957 in so far as they relate to the period
for making inspections have been modified to the effect that a District Judge shall inspect
his vernacular office and other offices under him during the period April 1 to June 30,
and all courts subordinate to him during the period October 1 to March 31. In case the
number of courts subordinate to him is very large, he shall inspect them during the period
July 1 to March 31. The time schedule for inspections as given in the Court‟s Circular
Letter No. 12, dated February 27, 1965 shall be strictly adhered to.
G.L. NO. 1010/H-1 DATED 22ND FEBRUARY, 1928

It sometimes occurs that the inspection notes of a court made by a District Judge
or Additional District Judge do not reach the court concerned until the officer who was
presiding at the time of the inspection has been transferred. District Judges should see
that whenever this occurs, a copy of the note is sent to the officer concerned, wherever he
may be.
C.L. NO. 49/H-ADMN. (D) DATED 25TH APRIL, 1979

The District Judges and the Chief Judicial Magistrates should personally ensure
that compliance reports are invariably sent alongwith the inspection notes, to the Court.
Henceforth, the inspection notes shall be submitted to the Court within one month of the
date of inspection, accompanied with compliance report.
C.L. NO. 33-H DATED 26TH MARCH, 1953

A guard file of inspection notes may be maintained for each court. All inspection
notes should be pasted to these guard files and a fresh guard file should not be started
until the current one has been completely used up. These guard files will enable a
continuous record of inspections to be maintained in each court in the judgeship.