CHARSADDA: A judicial complex equipped with e-courts, video link and other modern facilities will be inaugurated here on Saturday (today).

District and sessions judge Munira Abbasi, while briefing mediapersons at the newly-built building on Friday, said it was the first-ever judicial complex in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which had been equipped with the latest facilities like e-courts and video link.

She was flanked by additional sessions judge Arbab Suhail Hameed, senior civil judge Hina Mehwish, civil judge Shaukat Ali Khan, district bar president Waris Khan Mohammadzai, general secretary Saifullah Khan and other office-bearers of the bar.

Ms Abbasi said the judicial complex had been built at a cost of Rs929 million on 116 kanals. This complex has e-court system where statements of witnesses in abroad could be recorded through video links.

She said information desks and screens had been installed on each floor of the judicial complex to facilitate the litigants and their counsel, adding summons for the hearing date would be sent to litigants and their counsel a day before through an SMS.

She said 80 CCTV cameras had been installed and a digital security room with family-children park had been built in the complex.

She said after Lahore and Ralwalpindi, first-ever modern barrooms equipped with latest facilities had been established at the judicial complex in Charsadda.

The judicial complex also houses residences of nine ADJs, six civil judges, a hostel for officers, an officer club, 17 courts, and modern IT facilities, besides having separate waiting rooms for litigants in front of each court.

Published in Dawn, November 25th, 2017