# unnecessary adjournments and delay in the disposal of sessions cases

- **Citation:** C.L. No. 28
- **Court:** Allahabad High Court
- **Decided:** 1955-08-22
- **Case number:** C.L. No. 28
- **Source:** https://unisonlegal.in/judgment/allahabad-high-court/unnecessary-adjournments-and-delay-in-the-disposal-of-sessions-cases-163480
- **Pages:** 1

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in sessions courts do not always attend in time and on the dates fixed. This result in
unnecessary adjournments and delay in the disposal of sessions cases.

District and Sessions Judges and Additional District Judges should send a report
to the Court whenever a sessions trial has to be adjourned due to the default of the police
or the Magistrate.
C.L. No. 28 dated 26th March, 1968

Assistant Sessions Judges and Magistrates should, as far as possible,
accommodate district authorities by not insisting on appearance of the Magistrates
detained on law and order duties during festivals like Id, Moharram and Holi, etc. as witnesses on those dates. Convenient dates should be fixed for their appearance.
G.L. No. 10/VII b/68 dated 17th March, 1947

Government have directed the Inspector General of Police to issue circular order
to ensure that police officers attend court without fail on the date fixed by the Sessions
Judge, and that careful attention is paid to the service of summonses and their return to
the courts concerned.

District Magistrates have also been asked to issue instructions to all Magistrates
subordinate to them that they should attend the sessions court on the due date whenever
required to do so.
(iii)
Wireless message
C.E. No. 2/VII-b-68 dated 3rd January, 1975

With a view to avoid undue pressure on police wireless grid and to enable it to
control the law and order situation, the services of the police wireless grid can be utilized
with the permission of the District Judge for summoning witnesses in Sessions Trials
only in special circumstance and subject to the following conditions in supersession of
G.O. no. 22 65/VIII-2088-1948, dated August 22, 1955:
(1)
Radiogram can be used only in cases where information cannot be sent in
time through postal service.
(2)
Radiogram should be written in telegraphic language.
(3)
Radiogram should be sent under the signature of the District Judge
only.
C.L. No. 102/VI b-11 dated 9th June, 1976

The Government has restored the wireless facilities for summoning of prosecution
witnesses. The facility so restored may please be utilized for summoning of prosecution
witnesses.
C.E. No. 65/IVh-36 dated 24th March, 1977

It informs all the District and Sessions Judges that the Court has decided that on
the criminal side the processes should be filled in by the Court Moharrirs or any other
police official before filing them in courts and directs in future no process should be
accepted unless it is duly filled up.