The High Court has issued a set of guidelines for lower court judges for properly conducting judicial inquiry into cases and dealing with those and finding solutions to the problems they are facing.

According to a guideline, the lower court judges must hold a judicial conference at least once a month to know the hurdles or problems they are facing in carrying out their duties and to find their solutions. 

There should be a special session in the conference, where sessions judges and chief metropolitan magistrate or chief judicial magistrate will share the interpretations on the provisions of procedural laws of the land, the court said.

The HC bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar has come up with the guidelines in the full text of its verdict on a 2014 criminal revision petition.

Aynul alias Abdul Mannan from Gaibandha filed the petition against an order passed by the Sessions Judge's Court of Gaibandha in July 2012 on a naraji (no confidence) application in connection with a murder case.

The HC recently released the full text after the judges had signed it on May 29.

In the full text, the HC said in exercising the criminal revisional power bestowed upon the sessions judges, they should not shrug off their duty and responsibility of revising the impugned judgement/order by simply agreeing or disagreeing to the lower court judgment or order. 

“They [sessions judges] are statutorily obliged to delve deep into the question of law in the context of the given facts of the case concerned and, then, record their own view/s reflecting their independent performance and competence,” the HC said.

“They [sessions judges] must be judicious and quick in disposing of the revisional matters filed against any order so that the general people cannot blame the judiciary that the inquiry or trial of a case is delayed due to the poor and slow performance of the courts.”

Immediately before retirement from service, the district and sessions judges should be more serious in performing their duties so that their junior colleagues, the Supreme Court, the advocates and the court staff remember them forever with admiration.

“They should put in their best efforts to earn recognition from the citizenry that the judiciary is the most dynamic and patriotic organ of the state, being manned and run by honest, brilliant, vigilant and skilled officers,” the HC said in the verdict.