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District And Sessions Court

INTRODUCTIONThe District and Sessions Court is at the heart of the city. Litigant Public approaches the Court

with their grievances and for its redress. The Court Complex is located at a distance of 200 feet from theTown Mahila Samaj and in the nearby vicinity of State Bank of Mysore, S.P Office, I.B., Income TaxOffice, L.I.C. Office, District Central Library and other government offices. ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTUREThe District and Sessions court is the functional Head of the District. Apart from the District Court 7 more

courts are functioning in the court complex, viz., the courts of additional District and Sessions Judge, civilJudge (Sr.Dn) and Chief Judicial Magistrate. Prl. Civil Judge (Jr.Dn) & JMFC, Additional Civil Judge(Jr.Dn) & JMFC and Labour court,Fast Track court-1, Fast Track court-11 And 12 ( twelve) Courts areestablished in the six Talukas viz., Kadur, Tarikere, Mudigere, Narasimharajapura, Sringeri and Koppa.

The Details of the Presiding Officers of the courts at ChikmagalurAdministrative Judge,Honble High Court of Karnataka, Bangalore

Principal District & Sessions JudgeAdditional District & Sessions Judge

Presiding Officer, Labour courtPresiding Officer Fast Track Court-1Presiding Officer Fast Track Court-11

Civil Judge (Sr.Dn )and Chief Judicial MagistratePrl. Civil Judge(Jr.Dn) & JMFC

Additional Civil Judge(Jr.Dn) & JMFC Rank of the Judicial Officers in Chikmagalur District

ge Head of the Chikmagalur District Courts Judge Head of the Department (Dist)

n) District Level Officer) Sub-Divisional Level Officer

The District Court has been computerized and the works of Civil/Criminal/Accounts / Administrativebranches are regularly updated. The computerization of all the courts in the district ( Ecept Fast Trackcourts and Civil Judge (Sr.Dn) and J.M.FC, Court-Kadur) is taken up. The sub-ordinate courts of theChikmagalur District i.e. Taluka courts are also fully computerized and now they are linked to the districtcourt through ISDN lines and data importing started in the district court. Right now six Taluka Courts areestablished i.e. Kadur, Tarikere, Mudigere, Narasimharajapura, Sringeri and Koppa.


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The Details of the Presiding Officers of the Sub-ordinate Courts of Chik

Presiding Officer , Fast Track court, KadurCivil Judge (Jr.Dn) & Prl. JMFC, Kadur Taluk.Prl. Civil Judge (Jr.Dn) & JMFC, Kadur Taluk.Additional Civil Judge (Jr.Dn) &JMFC, Kadur Taluk.Presiding Officer Fast Track Court, Tarikere.Civil Judge (Sr.Dn) & Prl. JMFC, Tarikere Taluk.Civil Judge (Jr.Dn) & Addl. JMFC, Tarikere Taluk.Prl. Civil Judge (Jr.Dn) & JMFC, Mudigere Taluk.Addl.Civil Judge (Jr.Dn) & JMFC, Mudigere Taluk.Civil Judge(Jr.Dn) & JMFC, Narasimharajapura TalukCivil Judge (Jr.Dn) & JMFC, Sringeri Taluk.Civil Judge (Jr.Dn) & JMFC, Koppa Taluk.

Now Case filing, Caveat filing, IA filing, certified copy, summons etc are done through computers withthe help of court software namedLitigation Management System. All the Talukacourts are also usingthe court software named Litigation Management System and the data collected in their server wasimported daily to the District Court through MODEM everyday. Now database has been exported toHonble High Court of Karnataka, Bangalore regularly. Now the District Court has been provided withHigh speed ISDN connection for data importing and exporting and in due course of time it is going to beupdated with Video conferencing. The Payroll of the employees and Annual Budget estimates are beingdone through computers. Now the Dist.court has got an E-mail facility provided by the Sancharnet([email protected]) and NICNET, Chikmagalur. The proposal of Enquiry Counter in District CourtComplex will be completed in due course. This Enquiry Counter help the Litigant Public to approach theDistrict Court for their litigant information which are filed in the Chikmagalur Sub-ordinate Taluka courts toknow the status. The Construction of the Annex Building which is in progress in the Court complex will be

completed in due course of time.

Hon'ble High Court Judge Inaugurating the Dist. CourtComputer Centre,NIC, Chickmagalur

WHO SHOULD BE CONTACTED AND FOR WHATPeople come to the courts with variety of grievances and most of them do not know as to whom they

have to contact to get their work done. Some useful information for the sake of litigant public is furnished


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as hereunder. The District Court has many functional wings and wing functions with co-ordination to oneanother. viz.,1. ADMINISTRATIVE SECTION.

This section deals with the matter relating to vacancies, appointments, transfers and promotions,

postings, CCA (Clarification, Control and Appeals), pleadings and all applications are to be filed beforethis court and are received in this section. The Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) who is the head of theAdministrative Section is assisting the District Judge in Administrative and other matters.2. CIVIL PENDING BRANCH

This section deals with all the matters pertaining to civil side, such as putting up of order sheets,maintaining pending records and registers, issue of summonses etc.,3. CRIMINAL PENDING BRANCH:

This section deals with all matters pertaining to Criminal side including the properties (Materialobjects) in criminal cases.4. COPYING BRANCHThis section receives all the copy applications being filed by the parties and Advocates both on Civil and

Criminal cases, preparing and certified copies and delivering the same to the applicants. Further the saidBranch prepares the Paper Books required by the advocates in conducting the appeals. 5. ACCOUNTS BRANCHThis section maintains the Service Registers of District Court Staff. Daily Transactions of money matters

pertaining to Civil Court Deposit / Criminal Court Deposit, pay and allowances, pension papers andpayment of Batta to witnesses under the supervision of Accounts Sheristedar. 6. CENTRAL PROCESS BRANCH:The Process Nazer is the head of the branch and deals with all the matters pertaining to Process Section

i.e. receiving processes, notices, injunction, Orders and all types of warrants to be executed andnumbering the same with XXVI No. And entrusting the same to the process staff for service andexecution and return the same to the courts of issue. Further the Nazer deals with the matters pertainingto Audit Reports of all the sub-ordinate courts in the District and regarding the Inspection of the LowerCourts.7. CENTRAL RECORD ROOM

It is the custodian of all the Civil and Criminal cases disposed of on the file of various courts in theDistrict including the District Court and the parties may obtain certified copies of the documents in anycases of any courts by applying for the same before the C. DISTRICT LEGAL SERVICE AUTHORITYWith a view to provide free and Competent Legal Services to the weaker sections of the society to ensurethat opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or otherdisabilities and to organize Lok Adalats to secure that the operation of the Legal system promotes justice


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on a basis of equal opportunity. The District Legal Service Authority was constituted in all the Districts inthe state under the Chairmanship of Prl.District and Sessions Judge. The Civil Judge (Sr.Dn and C.J.M.shall be the Member Secretary of the said D.L.S.A. At Taluka level Legal Service Authority have beenconstituted in all the Talukas shall be the EX-OFFICIO Chairman and the Judicial Officers working in therespective Taluka Head Quarters shall be the Member Secretary of Taluka Legal Service Authority. Thesaid Authorities hold Lok Adalat Meetings frequently and settle all types of disputes between the parties(both civil and criminal) with the assistance of Conciliators and thus take extra measure to draw schemesfor effective and meaningful legal services for settling rural disputes at the door steps of the rural peopleby organizing various legal service programmes as approved by the State Authority and convene Meeting/ Seminars and workshops connected with Legal Service Programmes. Deserving persons may approacheither D.L.S.A or T.L.S.A as the case may be for redress of their grievances and get them settled thoughthe Lok Adalats and the Competent Courts.Now Lok Adalahs will be held on first and last Satuarday ofevery Month.

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