Civil cases to be decided in 6 months, criminal in 4 under Nizam-e-Adl

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Civil cases to be decided in 6 months, criminal in 4 under Nizam-e-Adl

LAHORE: NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Monday announced the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation 2009 for Malakand division of the province for dispensation of justice, saying it would be implemented as soon as peace was restored in Swat, a private TV channel reported.

Following are the main features of the regulation:

1) All laws will be in accordance with sharia

2) All cases shall be decided according to sharia

3) Cases of non-Muslims in matters of adoption, divorce, dowry, inheritance, marriage, religion, religious rights, usages and wills shall be decided in accordance with their personal laws

4) District and sessions judge will become zilla qazi

5) Additional district and sessions judge will become izafi zila qazi

6) Senior civil judge-cum-magistrate of Section 30 will be aala illaqa qazi

7) Civil judge and judicial magistrate will be illaqa qazi

8) Qazi shall follow the established principles of sharia and will seek guidance from the Quran and Sunnah

9) Appeals against qazi’s decision shall be submitted to the Federal Shariat Court

10) Special bench of Shariat Court will hear review appeals

11) The bench will be set up in Malakand

12) A civil case will be disposed off in six months

13) A criminal case will be disposed off in four months

14) Deviations will be liable to penalty

15) Qazis will be appointed from amongst the existing judicial officers with the LLM sharia degree or having a three-month sharia course

16) A qazi will refer matters requiring the interpretation of Islamic injunctions to his helper called moawin-e-qazi

17) At initial stage, each case shall be referred to mediators. However, cases under Hudood laws and cases by or against the government will not be open to mediation. daily times monitor

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