The city, along with Nagpur and Amravati, will soon have special courts dedicated to conduct day-to-day trials of corruption cases registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
"The government's notification regarding setting up of these courts will be issued by the end of this week," Vijay L Achaliya, secretary, state department of law and judiciary, told TOI. "The Bombay high court has communicated to us the names of judges, who will preside over these three special CBI courts." He did not divulge names of the judges, citing the notification process.
A senior official at the Bombay HC registrar general's office said, "We had sought information from the district and sessions judges concerned relating to availability of courtroom and allied infrastructure and the matter is in process. The special courts will be in place soon."
The move forms part of the Union government's larger reforms aimed at strengthening the functioning of the CBI. A year-and-half ago, the agency had moved a proposal before the Prime Minister seeking, among other things, setting up of special courts for expeditious trial of cases investigated by the CBI.
Responding to the proposal, PM Manmohan Singh had announced the move to set up 71 special courts for CBI cases in the country. Of these, six special courts were sanctioned for Maharashtra in 2009 - three in Mumbai and one each in Pune, Nagpur and Amravati.
The special courts in Mumbai have since started functioning, while the process was on to set up similar facilities in the other three cities.
According to figures released on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha by V Narayanasamy, Union minister of state for personnel, public grievances and pensions, Maharashtra accounts for 1,062 of the total 9,910 corruption cases investigated by the CBI and pending trial at different stages in courts across the country, as on January 31, 2011. The figure represents an almost 11 per cent share of the overall pendency, which is second only to the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi's 1,759 cases (17.74 per cent share).
West Bengal with 891 cases and Uttar Pradesh with 848 cases are the other two states with higher number of cases while the pendency of CBI cases in the remaining states is in numbers less than 500 cases.
Narayanasamy said, "Of the 71 courts, sanction orders have, so far, been issued for 54 courts out of which 10 are already functional. The state governments have been requested to take necessary steps to make operational the remaining of the sanctioned courts."
According to Achaliya, who is a former district and sessions judge of Pune, a bulk of the CBI cases in the state are registered in Mumbai, while Pune and the other two cities have a far lesser number of pending matters. Pune has 64 pending cases. "The high number of pending cases can also be attributed to cases registered under the Anti-Corruption Act."
"The government's notification regarding setting up of these courts will be issued by the end of this week," Vijay L Achaliya, secretary, state department of law and judiciary, told TOI. "The Bombay high court has communicated to us the names of judges, who will preside over these three special CBI courts." He did not divulge names of the judges, citing the notification process.
A senior official at the Bombay HC registrar general's office said, "We had sought information from the district and sessions judges concerned relating to availability of courtroom and allied infrastructure and the matter is in process. The special courts will be in place soon."
The move forms part of the Union government's larger reforms aimed at strengthening the functioning of the CBI. A year-and-half ago, the agency had moved a proposal before the Prime Minister seeking, among other things, setting up of special courts for expeditious trial of cases investigated by the CBI.
Responding to the proposal, PM Manmohan Singh had announced the move to set up 71 special courts for CBI cases in the country. Of these, six special courts were sanctioned for Maharashtra in 2009 - three in Mumbai and one each in Pune, Nagpur and Amravati.
The special courts in Mumbai have since started functioning, while the process was on to set up similar facilities in the other three cities.
According to figures released on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha by V Narayanasamy, Union minister of state for personnel, public grievances and pensions, Maharashtra accounts for 1,062 of the total 9,910 corruption cases investigated by the CBI and pending trial at different stages in courts across the country, as on January 31, 2011. The figure represents an almost 11 per cent share of the overall pendency, which is second only to the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi's 1,759 cases (17.74 per cent share).
West Bengal with 891 cases and Uttar Pradesh with 848 cases are the other two states with higher number of cases while the pendency of CBI cases in the remaining states is in numbers less than 500 cases.
Narayanasamy said, "Of the 71 courts, sanction orders have, so far, been issued for 54 courts out of which 10 are already functional. The state governments have been requested to take necessary steps to make operational the remaining of the sanctioned courts."
According to Achaliya, who is a former district and sessions judge of Pune, a bulk of the CBI cases in the state are registered in Mumbai, while Pune and the other two cities have a far lesser number of pending matters. Pune has 64 pending cases. "The high number of pending cases can also be attributed to cases registered under the Anti-Corruption Act."
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