# INSPECTION BY DISTRICT JUDGE - **Citation:** C.L. NO. 79 - **Court:** Allahabad High Court - **Decided:** 1921-01-11 - **Case number:** C.L. NO. 79 - **Source:** https://unisonlegal.in/judgment/allahabad-high-court/inspection-by-district-judge-162615 - **Pages:** 2 ## Text 319 4. INSPECTION BY DISTRICT JUDGE C.L. NO. 79 DATED 15TH DECEMBER, 1960 The District Judge should inspect the work of the new Munsif posted to his district on his first appointment, within three months of his posting and should submit to the High Court the inspection note recorded by him without waiting for the compliance. C.L. NO. 2437 DATED 27TH JULY, 1903 Court has had occasion to notice that some District Judges, in submitting their notes of inspection of subordinate courts, forwarded at the same time a report by their Munsarim on the working of certain department of the office under inspection. The Court has no objection to a subordinate official being deputed to verify points on which a District Judge desires to have fuller information but it considers that the inspection of a subordinate Court and of its office and the report thereon should be the work of the Judge himself. C.L. NO. 71/IVF-79 DATED 31ST OCTOBER, 1964 Inspections of the subordinate courts and offices should be made by the District Judges or the officiating District Judges themselves, and not by Additional District Judges or other officers holding charges of the work of the District Judges in their absence or for any other reason as required in rule 610 Chapter XXVI of General Rules (Civil) 1957, Volume I. C.L. NO. 130 DATED 28TH AUGUST, 1974 SUPERSEDES C.L. NO. 66/H DATED 2ND JUNE, 1970 District Judges are required to inspect the work of Additional District and Sessions Judges. They may authorize one or two senior Additional District Judges to inspect the court of Munsifs. C.L. NO. 12 DATED 27TH FEBRUARY, 1965 The District Judges are expected to answer the requirements of inspection contained in the Court‟s General letter no. 111/35(a)-2, dated January 11, 1921 by devoting one day to the Courts of Munsifs, Civil Judges not invested with sessions powers and additional courts and two days time to the courts of Civil Judges exercising sessions powers and Additional District Judges. Inspection of Nazarat, Copying Department and Record Room may be made by devoting one day to each of them. C.L. NO. 133/ADMN. (B) DATED 20TH DECEMBER, 1969 District Judges should make regular inspections, at least once in a year, of the courts of Chief Judicial Magistrates and judicial officers doing criminal work and their offices and furnish their inspection notes with compliance reports to the Court. While making inspections of the aforesaid courts and offices, the following items should also be taken into consideration:- 1. Accommodation for courts and offices 2. Furniture 3. Notice Boards 320 4. Pending file 5. Diaries 6. Maintenance of registers by the office 7. Weekly cause list 8. Handling of cases with reference to : (a) Granting remands (b) Cases of under-trials in jail, if taken up expeditiously, (c) Bail orders, if properly passed, (d) Securities, if properly accepted, (e) Charges, if framed properly, (f) Summoning of witnesses and service on them, (g) Adjournments, if properly granted, (h) Commitment proceedings: - (i) If all witnesses of fact and medical witnesses for the prosecution examined. (ii) If calendars prepared properly, (iii) Whether documents given to the accused at the proper stage as required by section 173, Criminal Procedure Code, (iv) Whether proper control exercised over the proceedings and recording of evidence. (v) Examination of records of about 20 pending cases of various types. C.L. NO. 15/VIII-B-6 DATED 23RD JANUARY, 1952 While inspecting subordinate courts, District Judges should look into the manner of disposal of interlocutory applications by presiding officers and the court staff. Presiding Officers should also, when inspecting the work of their clerks, see how the office has dealt with such applications. C.L. NO. 30/VIII-B-121 DATED 14TH MARCH, 1953 District Judges should while inspecting the courts also see whether the case diary prescribed under rule 401, Chapter XVI of the General Rules (Civil), 1957 has been properly maintained by presiding officers in their own hand. C.L. NO. 46/VIIIB-121 ADMN.(G)(8) DATED 20TH JULY, 1983 The District Judges should ensure strict compliance of directions regarding maintenance of diary by Presiding Officers in their own handwriting while inspecting the courts; they should particularly see this matter and it should find mention in the inspection notes. C.L. NO. 13 DATED 20TH DECEMBER, 1902 District Judges should also see whether a blank page has been inserted at the beginning of each copy of General Rules (Civil) and (Criminal) and the serial number of each correction slip received from the press has been noted thereon alongwith (a) the date of amendment and (b) the number of the rule amended; and mention in his inspection notes whether the copy of the Rules is up-to-date.