Following instruction given by Jharkhand High Court (HC), the judicial works started at Ranchi Civil Court on Friday with proper care and maintaining social distancing. On the first day of the opening of the Court after lockdown a total of 50 cases were filed.
For hearing of important and necessary cases following the directions of Chief Justice Jharkhand HC, Ravi Ranjan, Judicial Commissioner Navneet Kumar directed the Courts, to bring acceleration in hearing of the cases to provide earlier justice to poor and needy people.
After receiving the instructions, at various courts to run smoothly, various counters were made on May 8 near the entry gates of the Civil Court premises, in which fresh filing counters, certified copying counters, bar counters and notary counters were made.
A help desk has also been set up by DLSA. For hearing of various cases, the advocates will put their applications in the drop box and after 24 hours it has been sanitized, the matter will be given to the Court concerned and it will be heard through video conferencing. There will be three apps for this - Video app, Cisco app and Hearing through JITC app. Outside the Civil Court premises, thermal scanning and sensitization work is being done by Dalsa after that permission is being granted to enter the counter.
During the filing, the Chairman of the Bar, Shambhu Agarwal, General Secretary, Kundan Prakashan, Member Secretary, Pawan Ranjan Khatri and other officials were present at the bar counter and filing and applications were filed by the Advocates with their cooperation. Filing time has been fixed from 8 am to 10 am.
It may be noted that the Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court, through a video conference, instructed the judge, Ranchi, to follow the lockdown and social distancing to expedite the judicial work and also the disposal of related matters. In the light of this directive, work is being done by the Civil Court Administration.
During the filing, Manager of Civil Court, Manish Kumar Singh, DLSA Secretary, Abhishek Kumar, PLV of DLSA and all the officials of the Bar were present.
It may be mentioned here that the Jharkhand HC canceled the summer vacation. The holiday was scheduled from May 18 to June 6 in the High Court.
The High Court has canceled this holiday by issuing an order. Due to the lockdown, only cases of urgent nature are being heard in the High Court through video conferencing.