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LAW, ORDER AND JUSTICE
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JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
[Bhandara District Census Handbook, 1961.]
District Judge.— The District and Sessions Judge is the head of the Judicial Department in the district. The Judiciary is entirely separated from the executive. The Collector continues to be the
District Magistrate and the Deputy Collectors and Tahsildars are vested with magisterial powers. But those powers are limited
of; those specified under chapter VIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure and none of them ever tries any criminal case. The District Magistrate does not have any administrative control over the other magistrates who try criminal cases in the district. This separation of the Judiciary from the executive has been brought about in 1959.
The District and Sessions Judge is assisted by one Civil Judge of the Senior Division, He attends to Civil suits in the whole district.
There are two Civil Judges (Junior Division) and First Class Judicial Magistrates and one Civil Judge of the Junior Division with headquarters at different tahsil places. They deal with cases under the Indian Penal Code and the Prohibition Act.
There are also Five First Class Judicial Magistrates who attend to criminal cases arising within their respective jurisdiction. |
