Speedy justice to NRIs revenue Cases by Ludhiana Court
It may work or not work, the time will tell us but
some administrators like to bring changes in our Judicial
system towards NRI Cases.
Read this new order by By Ludhiana DC:
DC for fast track courts for NRIs
Ludhiana, September 28, 2005
Express News Service
DEPUTY Commissioner Anurag Verma has directed all
SDMs in the district to immediately set up fast track
courts of revenue cases of NRIs. The orders have been
passed following the directions of the Department
of Revenue and Rehabilitation, Judicial Wing.
The directions were passed at a meeting of all SDMs
convened today. He said that with a view to providing
speedy justice to the NRIs, the revenue fast track
courts would function at the lowest revenue court
level, that is, in courts of tehsildars and naib tehsildars
only for cases where an NRI is a petitioner.
He said that according to the directions, an NRI means
a person of Indian origin who is either permanently
or temporarily settled outside India, in either case,
for or on taking up employment outside India, for
carrying on a business or vocation outside India and
for any other purpose, in such circumstances as would
indicate his intention to stay outside India for an
uncertain period.
To efficiently expedite cases, each trial court of
the naib tehsildar/ tehsildar shall adopt reasonable
time limit in matter of undisputed/unregistered wills
in which NRIs have an interest and process of service
of respondents in cases of an NRI petitioner would
be done through issue of dasti summons, mushtri munadi
and registered advertisement simultaneously for its
speedy completion.
He said that in case of disputed mutations all parties
concerned should be called simultaneously at the same
time through service process as mentioned and decide
case in one go.
It has been ordered that to avail of this relief,
the petitioner NRI should produce the copy of his/her
valid passport to prove that he/she is an NRI. An
NRI will also be entitled to file his case through
special power of attorney, which may bear a special
logo of different colour of the NRIs Sabha. Through
this attorney, the case will be heard as fast track
court case and for pending cases, the revenue court
concerned should, after verifying from passport legitimate
NRI status of litigant transfer the same to the fast
track court for NRI matters and include case in the
cause list of NRI matters for expeditious adjudication.
The progress of these cases shall be monitored at
the level of SDM, district collector and commissioner
during monthly/quarterly meetings.
