Allahabad High Court Issues Guidelines For Functioning Of District Courts, Tribunals Subordinate To It From Jan 10

Due to the recent increase in the cases of COVID-19, the Allahabad High Court has decided to issue certain guidelines that shall be applicable to all the Courts (including Tribunals) subordinate to the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad with effect from January 10.

The Guidelines issued by the High Court are as follows:

• Before the opening of the campus, District Judges will ensure complete sanitization (strictly as per medical guidelines) and cleaning of entire court campus on daily basis by way of seeking assistance from the District Magistrate and Chief Medical Officer of the concerned district.
• All the Courts and Tribunals subordinate to the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad will take up the following matters -

a) Admission of new/pending matter (if any). b) Bail (Pending / Fresh). c) Anticipatory Bail (Pending/ Fresh). d) Matters involving release of vehicle, disposal of petty offence cases. e) Urgent injunction matters (Pending/Fresh). f) Matter related to receiving and disposal of police report under Section 173 Cr.P.C. g) Disposal of Applications of Investigating Officer such as matter involving NBW, process under Section 82/83 Cr.P.C., Statements under Section 164 Cr.P.C. h) Remand/ Other Judicial Work in respect of Under-Trial Prisoner will done strictly through Video-Conferencing only. In case of any technical issue, other modes may be adopted. i) The cases in which the evidence is complete, the arguments can be heard virtually or written submissions can be entertained. j) Delivery of pending Orders/ Judgment, if any, if the arguments have already been completed. k) Pending office work. l) Any other Urgent Judicial work. m) Any other Administrative work.

• In Criminal Cases, no adverse order will be passed / no coercive action will be taken, in absence of concerned parties.
• If the District Magistrate / Chief Medical Officer of a concerned district is of the opinion that the District/ Outlying Court Campus should be closed for a particular period due to COVID-19 then the District Court/Outlying Court may be closed for the said period.

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