New national judicial policy announced, corrupt judicial officials will be made OSD

New national judicial policy has been announced here on Monday. Talking to journalists, the Supreme Court registrar Dr. Faqir Hussain said the apex court is presently hearing 19055 cases. He said the number of registered cases in NWFP is 187000, in Balochistan 7654 and in Sindh this number has reached 144924. The registrar said that decisions would be made in all these cases in a period of six months. Highlighing salient features of judicial policy, Dr. Faqir Hussain said that the people would experience a positive change after the implementation of new policy. He said a special cell will be set up to eliminate corruption from the judiciary and the judges will neither serve as acting Governors nor accept any other positions. He said that corrupt judicial officials will be made OSD. The Supreme Court registrar said that all the judges deputed to various departments have been called back and no judge will be appointed in his/her native district. He said that bailable cases would be heared on preferential basis while murder and narcotics related cases would soon be settled.

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