The PHC the year 2019-2020 as the second performance year declared, Registrar
Peshawar ( KikxNow ) Registrar of Peshawar High Court (PHC) Khawaja
Wajihuddin has declared the PHC the year 2019-2020 as the second performance
year and said that there were more promising results of the year 2018-2019.
During a press conference here at PHC on Friday, he said
that the court regularly interacted with electronic and print media to update
them with the progress regarding judicial performance and related issues to
promote transparency.
Both the Peshawar High Court and the District Judiciary
faced multiple challenges during the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the Performance
Year ibid such as strikes for almost a month besides holidays observed by the
Provincial Government on account of Covid-19 pandemic from 23rd March to 31st
May, 2020 which gravely affected the judicial business. He also informed that at the district level
total pendency in the non-NMDs increased from 190847 cases at the end of
November, 2019 to 195460 at the end of May, 2020. A total of 166691 fresh cases
were instituted while 162672 cases were disposed of during the said period.
The NMDs, he disclosed, had been facing difficulties owing
to inadequate infrastructure and human resource, apart from logistic issues,
which were reported both to the Supreme Court and the Provincial Government.
Yet despite these odds, 5264 cases were decided while 6017 were instituted
during this period, thereby increasing the pendency from 5636 cases at the end
of November, 2019 to 6237 at the end of May, 2020.
Cumulatively, he said, an institution of 172708 cases was
recorded in Non-NMDs and NMDs in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, as against the
disposal of 167936 cases leaving a pendency of 201697 cases at the end of May,
2020 vis-à-vis 196483 cases at the end of November, 2019.
He further gave out that establishment of Child Protection
Courts was a pioneering initiative of the Peshawar High Court under which the
Courts were piloted at three Divisional Headquarters i.e. Peshawar, Abbottabad
and Mardan. The facility then was extended to other places and currently
existed at all the seven Divisional Headquarters. During the 2nd and 3rd
quarters, 386 cases were instituted in the Courts of pilot phase, 186 cases
were transferred from other Courts out of which 396 cases were concluded
leaving a balance of 777 cases by the end of May 2020.
As for the PHC itself, the Registrar informed that 15414
cases were filed during the 2nd and 3rd quarters, of which 13401 were disposed
of leaving a pendency of 40722 cases at the end of May, 2020 as against 38576
at the end of November, 2019.
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