HOLY COWS AMONG BUTCHERS!:- SC puts curbs on adjournments to ensure fairer and faster trials:- How long shall we say awake and arise? There is a constant discomfort... Adjournments are sought on the drop of a hat by the counsel, even though the witness is present in the court, contrary to all principles of holding a trial. It is distressing to note that despite a series of judgments of the Supreme Court, the habit of granting adjournment, really an ailment, continues, a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and R F Nariman said and commanded trial courts not to adjourn proceedings between deposition and cross-examination of a witness. This means, from now onwards, a trial court has to hold the trial proceedings continuously on a day to day basis once the witness starts deposition till his cross-examination is over. This would go a long way in expediting the trial proceedings, which are notorious for their snail pace in a litigation-congested judiciary. The court gave vent to its anguish after finding that in a trap case under Prevention of Corruption Act, a trial court in Punjab had granted many adjournments resulting in a gap of 20 months between deposition of the witness and his cross-examination. Little wonder that the witness went back on his statement. The SC upheld the conviction and sentence, but frowned at the long adjournment of proceedings between deposition of the witness and his cross-examination. We fail to appreciate how the trial judge could exhibit such laxity in granting so much time for cross-examination in a case of this nature, it said and advised that the proper course for a trial judge was to complete cross-examination on the day witnesses are examined. timesofindia.indiatimes/india/SC-puts-curbs-on-adjournments-to-ensure-fairer-and-faster-trials/articleshow/45973618.cms https://facebook/?sk=nf https://facebook/presidentofindiarb https://facebook/PresidentMukherjee https://facebook/narendramodi https://facebook/groups/327960487272738/ https://facebook/supremecourtindia https://facebook/groups/118130894891657/ https://facebook/groups/TheSupreme.Court/ https://facebook/scdecision https://facebook/groups/121076947929402/ https://facebook/groups/183272278372277/ https://facebook/pages/Delhi-High-Court-Bar-Association/148436021927185 https://facebook/barcouncilofindia https://facebook/pages/BAR-Council-of-Gujarat-INDIA/248447978513156 https://facebook/groups/215023848662813/
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 01:08:29 +0000
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