Jharkhand HC suspends morning courts for summer 2025
THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK Advertisement Advertisement Daltonganj, March 27: There will be no ‘sitting of the morning courts’ this summer of…
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Daltonganj, March 27: There will be no ‘sitting of the morning courts’ this summer of 2025.
The Registrar General of the High Court of Jharkhand, Manoj Prasad has sent a letter dated March 26 to all the principal district and sessions judges and Judicial Commissioner, Ranchi in the state intimating them to ‘not commence sitting of morning courts’ within the respective judgeship.
The High Court of Jharkhand has ‘suspended’ the operation of Note 1 of Rule 1 of the Civil Court Rules of the High Court of Jharkhand.
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Heatwave Concerns Prompt Morning Court Sittings in Past Years
There used to be sitting of the morning courts from the first Monday of April till the first Monday of July in the wake of the severe heat here in Daltonganj where mercury used to hover between 44 degrees Celsius to 44.8 degrees Celsius.
However this summer of 2025 there will be no sitting of the morning courts. To put it in a simpler way, it will be a day-long civil courts’ affair here this summer.
The civil courts function from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm on every working day.
Day-Long Court Sessions to Continue Without Changes
Palamu DLSA Secretary Arpit Shrivastava confirming the intimation of the Registrar General of the High Court of Jharkhand Ranchi in regard to the suspension of facility for sittings of morning courts this summer of 2025 said, “The civil courts will be a day court. There is going to be no change in its timing. It will be 10.30 am to 4.30 pm functioning.”
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One advocate’s clerk said, “Morning courts used to be an inconvenience to us as the executive side used to remain a day-long affair while judiciary used to pack up after 12.30 pm. Now it’s a normal sailing of both judiciary and executive.”
