LAW, ORDER AND JUSTICE

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

[District Census Hand Book, Yeotmal, 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 Tahsildars are vested with magisterial powers. But those powers are limited to security proceedings under Chapter VIII, unlawful assembly under Chapter IX, public nuisances under Chapters X and XT and disputes as to immovable property under Chapter XII of the Criminal Procedure Code, and none of them ever tries any criminal case. The District Magistrate does not have any control over the other magistrates who try criminal cases in the district. This separation of 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 (Senior Division). He has jurisdiction over the entire district.

There are five Civil Judges (Junior Division) and First Class Judicial Magistrates with headquarters at different tahsil places They have civil jurisdiction up to Rs. 10,000 and criminal powers.

The following table gives the statistics of the cases decided in the Courts in the district for the years 1961 to 1963 and 1965 to 1967.

TABLE No. 4

WORK DISPOSED OF IN CIVIL AND CRIMNIAL COURTS OF YEOTMAL DISTRICT, 1961-1967

NOTE.-Cases decided by the District Magistrate and Executive Magistrate are not included in above.

SOURCE -District and Sessions Judge, Yeotmal.

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