District Courts Amritsar

The history of the District court at Amritsar dates back to more than one hundred and fifty years. During the era of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the famous Sikh Ruler of Punjab, there used to be no written laws or judicial courts and no established authority. Only the chieftains would decide cases as per their whims. The Sadar adulate court (Chief Court) was the sole court in his realm. The annexation of Punjab by the British was immediately followed by the creation of a Board of Administration in 1849 having power so a Sadar Court of Judicature and a Sadar Board of Revenue. In 1853 it was replaced with a Chief Commissioner, and two Principal Commissioners separately appointed for Judicial and Administrative work. The Judicial Commissioner was the Chief Judge of appeal and his Court was the final appellate court. By 1856, the Tehsildars were empowered to exercise the powers of a Subordinate Judge in small court to deal with the suit of which value up to Rs. 300/-. At that time there were 104 small causes, courts and each court had on average an area of 784 square miles. Thus, the civil courts started to function at Amritsar in the year 1856. During the year 1862, Honorary Native Magistrate for the disposal of petty criminal cases was appointed at Amritsar and Gujranwala. During the year 1862, a total of 3117 civil and rent matters were instituted and 3054 cases were disposed of leaving the balance at 63. By the Punjab Courts Act, XIX of 1865, inter alia, seven classes of Courts were brought into being in the civil Jurisdiction. Starting from the Court of Tehsildar at the bottom to the Court of the Judicial Commissioner at the top In 1877, the Punjab Courts Act, (XIX OF 1865) AND The Chief Court Act (IV of 1866), were repealed by the Punjab courts Act, (XVII of 1877), which consolidated and re-stated the law inter alia relating to the Chief Court. The Punjab Courts Act, XVIII of 1884, which repealed the Punjab courts Act of 1877, not only touched the question of subordinate courts, their reconstruction, jurisdiction, and powers, but also modified and restated the law regarding the constitution, powers and jurisdiction of the Chief Courts as well. The Punjab Courts Act 1884 also created the divisional courts. By the year 1884, elaborate and well-organized machinery was established for the administration of justice in the province. On the civil side, the British brought up a successful working hierarchy of civil courts.nThere were seven grades of the civil court:nn1. The Judges of Small cause Courtsn2. Tehsildars, Naib-tehsildars, Munsifs, and Honorary Civil Judges.n3. Assistant Commissioners and Extra-Assistant Commissioners.n4. Judicial Assistant and Subordinate Judges with appellate powers.n5. Deputy Commissioners and District Judges.n6. The Courts of Commissioners.n7. The Chief Court.

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I got married in January 2017 and hence i approached the suvidha centre at Amritsar court to get my marriage registered on 23 Jan 2017. For the first three days i was not even issued the token to stand in the queue. There was no one to guide about the correct procedure. On the fourth day i was told to get documents signed by reader and tehsildaar. The reader checked our forms and humilated and made fun of my previous divorce in front of my husband, father-in-law and other people. This is not acceptable by a person at such a responsible position. Next we were told to get the documents signed by tehsildaar - Mr Ravinder Kumar Bansal. Tehsildaar made us wait deliberately for 1 hour and asked for unnecessary documents just to delay the process. Ultimately reader told us to give 3000rs and then tehsildaar signed my documents immediately. The very same day me and my husband waited for the entire day as the data entry operator took one whole day just to enter out details on the system. By the end of the day when we received our marriage certificate, the place of marriage was wrongly mentioned. I was shocked that after giving 3000rs and waiting for one entire day this is the end result.nA change request was filed and no one cared to appologize us for the inconvinence caused. After 15 days of continous visits to enquire the progress we were told by the mployee working there that he lost all my documents and will refile it online.nFinally i recieved the marriage certificate on 11 feb 2017 Â after 20 days of struggle.nI would also like to share that everyone from a peon to tehsildar are taking money from innocent people. I lost my remaining faith in the Indian system after all the struggle and corruption i witnessed. And the bitter truth is that everyone knows about this but no one wants to end this.