ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khan Khosa on Wednesday said that children and gender based violence courts would be established in each district of the country.
He expressed these views while addressing a session on orientation on expeditious justice initiative for judges of additional Model Criminal Trial Courts here at Federal Judicial Academy.
The Chief Justice said that in every district of the country there will have gender based courts and the atmosphere of these courts will be different from other courts.
He said there will be at least one such court in each district to facilitate women, where they can go and tell their problems.
He said there would be around 1016 gender based violence courts across Pakistan.
Speaking about the children courts, Chif Justice Khosa said that they will not look like courts but homes, to make children feel comfortable so they can share their problems. Discussing the performance of the model courts, the chief justice said 5800 trials were decided through model courts in forty-eight working days.
He said basic objective behind establishing Model Courts is to provide inexpensive and expeditious justice to the masses.
He announced to add one more judge to every district and within a few months there will model courts in the entire country.
There will be no justice unless there will be a truthful evidence, he added.
He said any witness, who makes a false testimony will be rejected. He said the idea of Model Courts was first started in four districts, which was further expanded to seven districts.
He said six districts have zero pendency of murder and narcotics cases, while ten districts will be added next month. He said we will expand this to other offences.
The Chief Justice said that meeting of the National Judicial Policy Making Committee is scheduled on Monday and it is on agenda to now move to civil side.
He said civil, family, rent, and magistrate model courts are being launched simultaneously.
He said that the Supreme Court of Pakistan is the first apex court in the entire world, which has started hearing cases online.
He said a state of the art Research Center would be established at the Supreme Court, where five to six search engines would be installed to facilitate the legal fraternity and researchers. Justice Khosa said that it is the constitutional responsibility of the judiciary to provide inexpensive justice.
“All possibilities of adjournment have to be eliminated,” he said. The top judge also urged society to look after the spouses and children of prisoners.
“In criminal cases, people are languishing in jails for years and nobody cares about their spouses and children,” he said.
“Their families have not committed any offense but they unfortunately have to suffer more than them,” he lamented. “Poverty sometimes drives them to commit crime,” he added.
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