Is this a joke of the century ? - Court case with trunks of files

Hi Everyone,

when I read the news ( see below )in TOI newspaper, I got shocked. I mean ...this is crazy. I thought to myself... hello where are we?

This is the joke of the century. We talk about 21st century, IT and see India as a super power country in future. It feels great but if you look in deep, you will also say .. hello where are we?

As in my previous blog i was talking about pending court cases, but if you read the below article you would imagine as how many rooms does India need only to keep the related files of a single case.

Cases are increasing day by day as whenever the inflation will rise the crime will definately rise. So what are we going to do. If this is the scene of our courts then think of a case which is supposed to be registered today. It would take atleast 20 years to get solved. If you take this case ( seel below )the man is frustrated to the extent that he would be cursing the court like anything. His shop is sealed and he must have lost thousands and lacs of rupees. So who would be bothered about him. who would be giving him the money he has lost. You, me, the culprits or the court? who's going to set the rules for such things? There is no trust and like this whosoever have trust on the court will also not be trusting it any more.

Is it a joke or realty? How many times the case got transfered and how much tension one has goes through?

I think the leaders are just fighting with each other. Its a game of money and power and nothing else. Government must see these things. Just speaking good for themselves they should face the reality and the reality is " there is no trust and if the trust is there, no one knows when will the case get solved"

source:
The Times of India
By: Smriti Singh | TNN

New Delhi: Trial courts are reeling under the burden of massive paperwork. So much that recently a court at Tis Hazari complex simply refused to entertain a 26-yearold civil suit transferred to it by the High Court as the courtroom was ‘‘not spacious enough’’ to accommodate 14 trunks full of case files.
Sharad Gupta, who had filed a civil suit against his relatives in 1984, was already frustrated with long dates. But nothing prepared him to face the fact
that now the fate of his case depends on the available space in the courtroom. ‘‘Earlier it was the transfer of the case which was taking time and on repeated occasions, the counsel of the defendants sought adjournments on the pretext of inspecting the case files. Obviously, reading 14 trunks of records will take time. I am tired of delay. I just hope justice is done,’’ said Gupta.
Gupta had approached HC in 1984 and filed the suit against his relatives claiming they had illegally occupied his shop at Chawri Bazar. The case went on in the HC till 2003 while the shop remained shut with police having keys of the property.
Following an amendment in the Delhi High Court Act regarding its jurisdiction in civil cases, the HC on August 22, 2003 transferred the case to a district court. By this time, 14 trunks were required to keep the documents related to this case. Almost a year went by and the case records were finally transferred to the trial court on June 10, 2004.
Last year, additional district judge Sunil Rana, who was hearing the matter, transferred the case to another district judge. When the case came up for hearing in the court of additional district judge Narender Kumar, he realized the courtroom had no space to keep the records and requested authorities to sent the case back.
In a letter sent to the judgein-charge Pratibha Rani, ADJ Kumar requested the transfer of the case back to the court from where it was transferred. He said his courtroom already had ‘‘12 almirahs besides one ahlmad (courtmaster) and seating space for two assistants’’. The remaining space was occupied by furniture, he said, and it would not be possible for the parties to inspect the files in that room for further hearing.
Understanding the problem faced by ADJ Kumar, judge-incharge Rani ordered the case to be ‘‘withdrawn’’ from his court and sent it back to the court of ADJ Sunil Rana who had a ‘‘bigger room’’. However, realizing the case is being delayed due to voluminous records, the court has refused to grant any ‘‘unnecessary adjournments’’ to the parties and asked them to take ‘‘appropriate steps’’ for regular hearings.