LAW, ORDER AND JUSTICE

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

[District Census Handbook, Buidhana,196l, p. 4.]

Organisation.- The District and Sessions Judge is the head of the Judicial Department in the district with headquarters at Bul-dhana. The judiciary is entirely separated from the executive. The Collector continues to he the District Magistrate and the Deputy Collecors and Tahsildars are vested with magisterial powers. But those powers are limited to section 37 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, 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 heen brought about in the district in the year 1959.

The District and Sessions Judge is assisted by one Assistant and Additional Sessions Judge, with headquarters at Khamgaon. He has jurisdiction over Khamgaon and Jalgaon tahsils and Nandura Revenue Circle in Malkapur tahsil. He attends to Civil appeals arising out of suits in which value of subject-matter is not over Rs. 10,000. He also attends to criminal cases, both original and appellate, cases under the Guardians and Wards Act and appeals under the Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926.

There are two Civil Judges (Senior Division) one having jurisdiction over Khamgaon and Jalgaon tahsils and Nandura Revenue Circle of Malkapur tahsil and the other over Chikhli, Mehkar and Malkapur tahsils except Nandura Revenue Circle. They attend to special and regular suits (unlimited jurisdiction), cases under the Co-operative Societies Act in which value of subject-matter is over Rs. 10,000, suits under the Hindu Marriages Act, 1955 and cases under the Indian Succession Act of 1925, insolvency cases, suits under the Trusts Act, cases under the Displaced Persons Act, 1951, the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923, the Land Acquisition Act and the Railways Act.

The Civil Judges (Junior Division) with headquarters at Buldhana and Khamgaon attend to regular suits of value of subject-matter below Rs. 10,000, cases under the Co-operative Societies Act below Rs. 10,000, insolvency cases, cases under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, and the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, arising in their respective tahsils.

There are also five Civil Judges (Junior Division) and Judicial Magistrates, First Class, with headquarters at different tahsil headquarters. They attend to Civil Suits of value of subject-matter below Rs. 10,000. They also try ordinary criminal cases. There are two Judicial Magistrates, First Class, with headquarters at Khamgaon and Chikhli. They attend to criminal cases arising within their respective jurisdictions.

Crime.-The following table gives statistics of cases decided in civil and criminal courts and the cognizable and non-cognizable crimes reported in 1950, 1955, and in 1960 in the district.

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CASES DECIDED IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL COURTS AND CRIMES REPORTED IN THE DISTRICT.

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