Judiciary and corruption
The publication of the TIB report on corruption in judiciary is mostly related to the activities of the "Peshkars", which probably means those who place the case files serially to the honourable members of the bench! These and the other subordinate staff manage the queue of the dockets and do the necessary processing of the various papers and documents related to the court's order of proceedings.
This is a possible area which can be improved, and the lead time probably rationalised; that is managed by the bureaucracy of the court hierarchy.
This is a probable area of weakness, which has been loosely spelled out as 'corruption in judiciary'.
One reason could be the frustration in the time taken for trials, particularly due to repeated postponements of hearing dates. This is an area which may need some form of rationalisation. May be some type of harsh fines, covering all costs and overheads related to the delay, may be imposed on the litigant who seeks postponement. Another bottleneck is the lack of the number of judges, compared to the number of civil cases coming up for trial. We may have more courts established to handle larger numbers of cases.
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