Muzaffarabad
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has appreciated efforts of the judiciary to ensure the rule of law as well as stability and transparency of the accountability system in the liberated territory, and said that the pendency had registered a visible decline as a result of efforts made to administer early and inexpensive justice to the people.
He said this after Acting Chief Justice of Azad Jammu and Kashmir High Court Justice Azhar Salim Babar presented the annual report of the high court for the year 2019 to him here on Friday.
The AJK president said that early and inexpensive justice to the people was the first step towards establishing a welfare state, and hopefully, the stat judiciary will continue its efforts to further improve justice system in the state. “The judiciary owes the heavy responsibility of providing justice and ensuring protection of the rights of the common folk,” he said and added that only a strong and active judiciary can play its role in establishing the writ of law in the society.
Speaking on the occasion, the acting Chief Justice Azhar Salim Babar said that after taking the oath of the office of acting chief justice on 16 November 2019, he had introduced a foolproof monitoring system for the district and other lower judiciary, which had pulled down the pendency graph. He said that judgments of 620 cases in February including nine murder cases, had not only improved the justice system but also enhance people’s confidence in it.
He said that the people of the state particularly the litigating fraternity had attached great expectations with the state judiciary, and we are fully trying to come up to their expectations.—APP
