HC orders setting up 47 new courts in Delhi to lessen pendency

In a bid to lessen the pendency of litigations, Delhi High Court Chief Justice N V Ramana today ordered setting up of 47 new courts in the national capital.
The new courts, which will come up in six district courts complexes from January 15, will deal with trial in heinous offences and civil matters including motor accidents cases.
The executive order, signed by high court Registrar General Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, also said as the consequence, 78 officers of Delhi Higher Judicial Services (additional district and sessions judges) and 150 officers of Delhi Judicial Services (civil judges and magistrates) have been transfered.

The decision regarding setting up of new courts and major reshuffle in the lower judiciary came a day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Law Minister Somnath Bharti met the Chief Justice.
"The aforesaid creation of new courts will certainly result in expediting the trial of cases both in the district courts as well as in the Delhi High Court," Sehgal said.
Two senior trial court judges -- Satinder Kumar Gautam and Brijesh Kumar Garg -- have also been appointed as joint registrars of the high court to deal with civil matters.
The high court has asked the district judges to ensure that the litigants be intimated within two weeks about the new destinations of their pending cases so that "no inconvenience is caused to lawyers and litigants in the transfer of the cases".

It has also asked the judges, who have either been promoted or transferred, to pronounce verdicts in the matters in which they had earlier reserved the judgements.