The Gazetteers Department

In the past civil and criminal justice was administered by sub-divisional and district courts. Detailed statistics regarding the civil, revenue and criminal buisness transcated by these courts are available for a period ranging from 1891 to 1947 which are reproduced in the following tablet.

TABLE No. 3.

CIVIL AND REVENUE BUSINESS

Year	Civil Suits				Number of suits between landlord and tenant
	Sub-divisional Courts		District Courts
	Number of suits instituted	Average value	Number of suits instituted	Average value
1	2	3	4	5	6
		Rs.		Rs.
1891	--	--	7,003	98	1,034
1892	--	--	7,464	120	942
1893	--	--	8,367	104	939
1894	--	--	8,363	97	1,253
1895	--	--	8,692	101	2,090
1896	--	--	7,144	114	1,581
1897	--	--	7,417	122	1,791
1898	--	--	5,978	152	1,261
1899	--	--	4,099	109	859
1900	--	--	4,158	155	642
1901	4,745	55	931	632	1,073
1902	3,734	58	863	2,445	800
1903	3,938	54	736	1,016	664
1904	4,065	59	706	885	778
1905	3,990	59	227	833	662
1906	4,044	59	787	816	594
1907	4,143	61	875	1,045	531
1908	3,464	92	2,250	393	644
1909	4,621	66	2,717	1,322	1,006
1910	4,488	95	301	861	702
1911	4,357	110	2,042	374	796
1912	3,122	149	1,333	506	627
1913	2,948	159	1,379	542	647
1914	2,552	144	1,270	442	693
1915	3,885	130	1,524	509	1,023
1916	3,448	153	2,019	412	949
1917	3,420	149	2,136	591	1,184
1918	3,175	169	1,844	477	1,135
1919	3,183	188	1,853	627.7	1,055
1920	2,565	167.2	1,512	706.6	868
1921	2,374	204.7	1,424	612.8	988
1922	2,649	196.5	1,716	758.3	916

TABLE No. 3—contd.

Year	Civil Suits				Number of suits between landlord and tenant
	Sub-divisional Courts		District Courts
	Number of suits instituted	Average value	Number of suits instituted	Average value
1	2	3	4	5	6
		Rs.		Rs.
1923	2,247	220	1,693	593.3	867
1924	2,865	308.1	2,310	362.8	682
1925	1,716	255.2	2,846	388.5	617
1926	1,842	317.5	3,446	902.5	937
1927	3,289	39.1	3,532	600.9	1,350
1928	3,112	357	5,224	730.1	1,116
1929	2,742	322.5	4,274	759.7	1,066
1936	3,813	218.3	15	34,715.6	3,205
1937	3,312	195.8	7	58,423.4	3,716
1938	2,568	192.1	5	38,774.6	3,514
1940	1,898	128	8	21,622	3,908
1941	1,755	106	6	39,274	3,370
1942	1,397	119	10	34,087	2,162
1943	1,416	159	7	21,570	1,437
1944	1,407	150	14	26,055	1,055
1945	1,268	270	5	82,889	999
1946	1,379	263	17	53,219	908
1947	1,431	280	7	14,482	752

TABLE No. 4

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Year	Cognizable			Crime			Non-Cognizable
Year	Cases report-ed	Cases investi-gated	Cases sent up for trial	Persons tried	Persons acquitted or dis-charged	Persons convicted	Total cases for disposal	Cases dismissed without trial	Cases ending in discharge or acquittal	Cases ending in convic-tion
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1891	--	--	— Not available —
1892	--	--	— Not available —
1893	1,545	1,309	965	1.300	296	1.000	546	105	358	501
1894	1,507	1,231	876	1,140	211	909	478	86	409	242
1895	1,562	1,280	947	1.163	195	959	399	206	296	274
1896	1,411	1,161	728	1,069	229	837	466	192	375	248
1897	2,035	1,497	1,085	1,897	156	1,327	385	--	121	115
1898	1,063	925	740	856	93	734	--	Not available		--
1899	894	729	562	948	122	813	--	Not available		--
1900	1,565	1.135	876	1,220	148	1.007	410	13	116	168
1901	1,085	921	749	885	100	713	--	Not available		--
1902	981	779	606	773	165	587	598	--	141	249
1903	858	641	341	439	121	282	1,022	427	342	174
1904	767	490	275	419	154	250	919	211	261	178
1904	767	490	275	419	154	250	919	211	261	178
1905	743	501	198	331	104	208	1,051	219	386	189
1906	743	498	224	377	126	222	1,052	319	316	162
1907	773	562	228	425	95	310	1,068	293	420	903
1908	867	618	276	451	158	277	1,131	207	441	316
1909	822	523	191	317	123	157	915	326	351	164
1910	697	532	204	444	139	269	611	171	319	104
1911	642	530	246	453	160	203	851	160	198	227
1912	791	473	240	359	159	180	870	195	204	195
1913	784	529	266	476	157	273	995	138	219	243
1914	920	619	287	40	149	254	880	90	260	224
1915	1,063	589	220	370	122	269	735	63	206	160
1916	1,103	708	273	400	121	251	607	31	153	184
1917	1,222	778	280	434	102	268	714	81	148	191
1918	1,635	990	389	758	242	431	572	90	152	133
1919	1,556	1,106	456	803	217	493	745	87	202	158
1920	1,218	825	311	563	165	339	884	183	240	172
1921	1,474	1,010	339	792	226	439	650	59	136	151
1922	1,136	828	309	577	164	359	667	30	129	151
1923	1,092	813	553	630	150	403	742	64	264	166

TABLE No. 4—contd.

Year	Cognizable			Crime			Non-Cognizable
Year	Cases Report-ed	Cases investigat-ed	Cases sent up for trial	Persons tried	Persons acquitted or dis-charged	Persons convic-ted	Total cases for disposal	Cases dismissed without trial	Cases ending in discharge or acquittal	Cases ending in convic-tion
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1924	1,973	656	217	532	154	269	796	39	446	200
1925	1,014	734	298	506	149	247	755	268	184	161
1926	1,085	785	299	545	142	338	782	61	446	135
1927	1,227	1,027	299	566	144	342	708	46	178	131
1928	1,289	1,031	324	526	133	393	--	--	--	--
1929	1,297	1,087	403	604	180	424	815	61	518	143
1936	1,764	1,305	656	1,012	203	657	--	--	--	--
1937	1,610	1,134	437	652	72	408	--	--	--	--
1940	1,547	1,046	505	782	157	441	--	--	--	--
1941	1,199	764	616	922	171	558	--	--	--	--
1942	886	608	580	1,182	186	722	--	--	--	--
1943	1,859	1,297	965	1,485	267	1,008	--	--	--	--
1944	1,080	820	562	845	161	483	--	--	--	--
1945	1,322	880	542	815	177	476	--	--	--	--
1946	1,349	930	475	692	139	342	--	--	--	--
1947	1,780	1,280	563	1,032	166	464	--	--	--	--

The existing organisation of Judicial department is described below.[District Census Hand book, 1961.]

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 the Tahsildars are vested with magisterial powers. But those powers are limited to chapters VIII-B, X, XI, XII and XIV of the Criminal Procedure Code 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 the district in the year 1959.

The District and Sessions Judge is assisted by one Civil Judge of the Senior Division. He attends to special civil suits in the whole of the district in which the value of the subject-matter is above Rs. 10,000. He has special jurisdiction in regard to the whole of the district and ordinary original jurisdiction in Wardha tahsil only.

There are also two Civil Judges (Junior Division) and First Class Judicial Magistrates at Wardha and two Civil Judges and Judicial Magistrates, First Class, at Hinganghat and Arvi. They attend to civil and criminal suits.

The Special Judicial Magistrate, First Class, with headquarters at Nagpur attends to criminal cases, concerning motor vehicles throughout the district.

The details about the work disposed of in Civil and Criminal Courts in the district from 1963 to 1967 are given in the following statement.

WORK DISPOSED OF IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL COURTS OF WARDHA DISTRICT FROM 1963 TO 1967

Year	CIVIL				CRIMINAL
Year	Original		Appellate		Original		Appellate
	Regular	Misc.	Regular	Misc.	Regular	Misc.	Regular	Misc.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1963	1,319	1,813	1,258	27	6,885	145	105	33
1964	1,314	1,906	181	10	7,616	197	114	47
1965	1,152	1,834	132	18	7,049	546	117	25
1966	1,112	1,410	103	20	5,229	321	90	16
1967	1,916	1.055	149	20	5,396	127	151	76

Note.—Cases decided by the District Magistrate and Executive Magistrate are not included in above.

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