LAW, ORDER AND JUSTICE

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

Organisation: The District and Sessions Judge is the head of the Judicial Department in the district. The Collector acts as the District Magistrate and the Deputy Collectors and Mamlatdars are vested with magisterial powers. But these powers are limited to a few sections 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.

The District and Sessions Judge is assisted by two Assistant Judges and Additional Sessions Judges. They have jurisdiction over the entire district. They attend to civil and criminal work, both original and appellate. The Civil Judge (Senior Division) attends to civil suits in the whole of the district.

There are also fifteen Civil Judges (Junior Division) and First Class Judicial Magistrates who have their head-quarters at different taluka places in the district. They deal with civil and criminal cases.

Two Special First Class Judicial Magistrates deal with prohibition cases and municipal cases.

There is also one First Class Judicial Magistrate for Sholapur Taluka Police Station and Sholapur City Bazar Police Station.

The following statement shows the total cases decided in the Civil and Criminal Courts in the Sholapur district for a few years:-

* Figures pertain to the Sessions Court only.

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