Islamabad:
The acting chief judge of the High Court of Islamabad (IHC), Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, took note of a letter written by the secretary of a CIH judge with regard to the alleged request of bribes by the court staff – transferred to the IHC of the other courts – of the litigants.
Friday, judge Dogar was a committee including the clerk of the IHC Yar Muhammad Walana and the establishment of additional registrar Rai Muhammad Khan to launch an investigation into the issue and submit a report within three days.
In a letter written to the IHC clerk by the secretary of judge Babar Sattar on the investigation of the judge, the alarm had been raised on the reported request for “gratuities / documents” of the litigants by recently transferred staff from other high lessons to the IHC.
The letter had noted that the “pernicious practice” of the personnel of the court pursuing the advice and the pleadings, who received a compensation by the court, to demand the gratuity and the documents began to raise his ugly head in the IHC recently.
“IHC staff are full -time employees from the court and receive appropriate remuneration for their services and functions set by law. For an employee to request the gratuity of a lawyer or a plaid part for having received a compensation by the court is an act of misconduct.
He said that all courts, including high lessons, have been created to submit services to citizens and as service providers, it is for the courts and their staff to submit these services to the best of their capacities.
“Accepting documents or gratuities paid by a lawyer and / or a dispute part is considered to be corruption to a part of an employee of the court, and demanding such gratuity is considered to be a request for rents for the exemption from justice, and cannot have any place in the culture of the court which exists to provide citizens with access to justice. Such requests, therefore, should not attract a strict disciplinary action,” he said.
