Allahabad High Court Issues Guidelines For Functioning Of Subordinate Courts/Tribunals With Effect From Jan 2
The Allahabad High Court on Friday (18th December) issued modalities/ guidelines which would be applicable to all the Courts (Including Tribunals) subordinate to High Court of Judicature at Allahabad with effect from 02nd January 2021. The letter issued by the Allahabad High Court states that "in supersession of all earlier guidelines regarding opening of Courts during the...
The Allahabad High Court on Friday (18th December) issued modalities/ guidelines which would be applicable to all the Courts (Including Tribunals) subordinate to High Court of Judicature at Allahabad with effect from 02nd January 2021.
The letter issued by the Allahabad High Court states that "in supersession of all earlier guidelines regarding opening of Courts during the period of Lockdown & thereafter", the following modalities/ guidelines shall be applicable to all the Courts (Including Tribunals) subordinate to High Court of Judicature at Allahabad:-
- All the Courts (including tribunals) subordinate to the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad shall open to take up the Judicial Work & Administrative matters, as per the existing provisions, rules, guidelines and circulars issued from time to time.
- The guidelines communicated vide letter number 484/lnfraCell: Allahabad dated 30th May, 2020 regarding the preference of cases, shall be strictly adhered to.
- In case, the District Administration/ CMO concerned is of the opinion that the District/ Outlying Court Campus should be closed for a particular period due to Covid-19 pandemic situation, then the District Court/Outlying Court may be closed for the said period and an intimation mentioning the specific reasons may be sent to Allahabad High Court.
- Complete sanitization (strictly as per medical guidelines), cleaning of entire court campus with the help of District Magistrate, other administrative officers & CMO/CMS shall be ensured. District Authorities shall ensure Sanitization of Campus daily.
- Thermal scanning check-up of all the persons entering in the court premises shall also be ensured with the help of District Magistrate, other administrative officers & CMO/CMS.
- District Judges/ P.0.'s shall ensure compliance of directions given by Hon'ble Apex Court/ High Court of Judicature at Allahabad in Judicial side and all ~~ ~ directions/ guidelines issued by the Central Government & State Government regarding COVID-19.
- Daily consolidated report of the number of cases/applications decided, feedback etc. be submitted by the District Judges on the e-services module on regular basis.
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