Friday, July 16, 2010

Justice Tamada disposes of 92 petitions in a day

By S A Ishaqui

Hyderabad,July 15: Justice Gopalakrishna Tamada of the AP High Court on Thursday set a record by disposing of 92 criminal revision petitions. These were revision petitions that have been pending for the past eight to 10 years.

The judge started dealing with the petitions at 10.30 am and finished passing orders in all of the 92 cases by the end of the session.
Most of the cases pertained to reduction of sentence pronounced by lower courts in cases under Section 323, 324, and 307 of the IPC and also cases under Negotiable Instruments Act.

According to the senior advocates of the High Court, Justice Gopalakrishna Tamada surpassed the record of a judge in the Supreme Court who had disposed off about 60 cases in a day recently. Justice Tamada had also disposed off 1,500 criminal petitions that have been pending for many years within two weeks in April.

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