# G.L. No. 67/VIIIa-14 dated 18th October, 1948 as amended by

- **Citation:** C.L. No. 105/VIIIa-14
- **Court:** Allahabad High Court
- **Decided:** 1948-03-15
- **Case number:** C.L. No. 105/VIIIa-14
- **Source:** https://unisonlegal.in/judgment/allahabad-high-court/g-l-no-67-viiia-14-dated-18th-october-1948-as-amended-by-162520
- **Pages:** 3

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G.L. No. 67/VIIIa-14 dated 18th October, 1948 as amended by
C.L. No. 105/VIIIa-14 dated 16th October, 1951 and
C.L. No. 108/VIIIa-14 dated 23rd October, 1951 read with
C.L. No. 78/7-T (A-St.)-6-51 dated 25th July, 1951 and
C.L. No. 63/VIIIa-14 dated 7th June, 1972
The following instructions are issued for careful compliance while preparing
monthly statements of sessions trials concluded or pending in the courts of sessions:
(1)
In Form no. 39 prescribed under rule 172, Chapter XVIII of the General
Rules (Criminal), 1957 (Now 1977 vide notification no. 504/vb-13 dated
5.11.83. (HCJ Part IX, no. 64), additional information should invariably
be furnished on the points indicated below.
(2)
The decided and pending sessions trials should be divided into three
groups:
(a)
Decided,
(b)
Transferred (to other courts), and
(c)
Pending; and
(d)
Their particulars given separately on the same sessions statements.
Cases transferred shall thus be shown in the above return.
(3)
The first column of the form should contain the original number of
sessions trials and they should be arranged serially.
(4)
Column no. 2 should ordinarily contain the name of the first accused and
the number of the rest.
(5)
Column no. 8 should give the result of trial of all the accused individually
or in groups as may be necessary. The section or sections under which the
accused are convicted should also be mentioned in this column.
(6)
Column nos. 9 and 10 should contain the number of witnesses for
prosecution and defence already examined in the case in red ink and also
the number of witnesses for prosecution and defence likely to be examined
in the case on future dates in blue ink.
(7)
Column no. 11 should contain the number of days actually occupied in the
trial, with dates of hearing. For example, if the case was taken up on five
dates but no work was done on one day and half day‟s work on another
day, the number of days occupied would be only 3-1/2. The entry shall be
made as follows:
March 15, 1948 (1); March 16, 1948 (1); March 17, 1948 (1); March 18,
1948 (0) and March 19, 1948 (1/2); total 3-1/2 days work.
(8)
All the future dates fixed for trial should be noted in the remarks column.
If record has not been received or if a date has not been fixed, it should be
so noted in this column.
(9)
The remarks column should contain inter alia:
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(a)
in case of adjournments, work done on the previous date and
reasons of adjournment and reasons for fixing long dates if that be
the case as required above (Court‟s General letter no. 20, dated
March 30, 1948);
(b)
explanation in brief of Committing Magistrate for not sending the
record after commitment within the prescribed period. (The
explanation need not be repeated in subsequent monthly returns);
(c)
the date and substance of the last report received from the mental
hospital in cases stayed under section 466* (Now Section 330 of
Cr.P.C. 1973), Criminal Procedure Code and a very brief summary
of proceedings taken and the date of last action taken in cases in
which the accused is absconding.
(10)
Full particulars of the cases of the High Court on account of which
proceedings in sessions tirals are held up in the courts of session, i.e., the
number, year and the nature of proceeding pending in the Court or the
number of the Court‟s letter, as the case may be, due to which the cases
are held up in the courts of session, should invariably be indicated in the
remarks column of the statement against cases so stayed.
(11)
The result should be tabulated in the following form at the bottom of the
statement:
(i)
Pending at the end of the last month ............
(ii)
Number of cases committed .....................
(iii)
Number of cases received by transfer or otherwise .......
(iv)
Number of cases decided .................................
(v)
Number of cases transferred to other courts ..........
(vi)
Pending at the end of the month .......................

Fixed in the month of ...... No .......... Date ...... fixed ........
Record not yet received .......
(12)
The certificate of the presiding officer that the statement contains full and
correct list of all cases disposed of during the month, as well as those
pending at the close of the month as required under Chapter XVIII, rule
172 of General Rules (Criminal), 1957* (Now 1977 vide notification no.
504/Vb-13 dated 5.11.83) should be appended to the statement, in token of
his having checked and verified the statement.
(13)
Copies of judgments in all cases decided during the month bound together
with an index should be dispatched before the prescribed date to the
Registrar of the High Court at Allahabad, or to the Joint Registrar** of the
Lucknow Bench at Lucknow depending upon where an appeal would lie
against such decisions.

* Now Section 330 of Cr.P.C. 1973
* Now 1977 vide notification no. 504/vb-13, dated 5.11.83
** Now Additional Registrar.
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C.L. No. 73/VIIIa-14 dated 12th May, 1971
The directions contained in G.L. No. 67/VIIIa-14, dated October 18, 1948, should
be strictly followed and Form no. 39 should be correctly filled in the number of the
accused, the number of witnesses for prosecution and defence already examined, the
number of days actually occupied, all the future dates fixed for trial, etc, must clearly be
mentioned.
(b)
In Form no. 36
C.L. No. 125/IVh-50 dated 10th December, 1952
Figures of cases under section 6 (1) of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 1952
should also be given separately in Form no. 36 prescribed under rule 172, Chapter XVIII,
G.R. (criminal), 1957*.
C.L. No. 2 dated 7th January, 1964
Out of the figures of Sessions Trials pending at the end of the month shown in
Column no. 7 those triable by an Assistant Sessions Judge are to be shown separately in
the remarks column.
C.L.No. 18 dated 20th February, 1968
Monthly statements of pending criminal cases of the Courts of Chief Judicial
Magistrates, Judicial Officers+ and Munsif magistrates should be prepared and submitted
to the Court in the first week of the following month with particulars duly filled in the
form prescribed under the C.L.
C.L. No. 117 dated 11th September, 1975 read with
C.L. No. 156 dated 23rd December, 1975
Consolidated monthly information of the judgeship and magistracy regarding
institution and disposal of criminal cases should be furnished to the Court regularly by
the 10th day of following month in the following forms for onward transmission to the
Department of Justice, Government of India, New Delhi:-
PROFORMA 1
CRIMINAL CASES
Sessions Court - Name of the Judgeship.............
Total
no.
of
courts
functioned
during
the
quarter of
Nature of
cases
Total no. of cases
pending at the
beginning of the
quarter
Total
no.
of
cases
instituted
during
the
quarter
Total
Total no. of
cases
disposed of
during
the
quarter
Total no. of cases
which
remained
pending at the end
of the quarter
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Original (Sessions Trials)
Appeals
Revisions
NOTE:
(1) Total figures of the judgeship should be furnished and not court-wise.

* Now 1977 vide Notification No. 504/vb-13 dated 5.11.1983
+ Now Judicial magistrates