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THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM OF MIANWALI

THE ROOTS OF THE CURRENT JUDICIAL SYSTEM OF MIANWALI STRETCH BACK TO THE PERIOD WHEN MIANWALI WAS TEHSIL OF BANNU AND EVEN BEFORE. THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT IS BEING PRACTICED TODAY HAS EVOLVED OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, SPANNING ROUGHLY OVER A WHOLE MILLENNIUM. THE SYSTEM HAS PASSED THROUGH SEVERAL EPOCHS COVERING THE HINDU ERA, MUSLIM PERIOD INCLUDING THE MUGHAL DYNASTY, BRITISH COLONIAL PERIOD AND POST-INDEPENDENCE PERIOD. NOT WITH STANDING THE SUCCESSIVE CHANGES I.E. ONE RULE /DYNASTY SUBSTITUTED BY THE OTHER , WHICH NATURALLY RESULTED IN THE SOCIOECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY, THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM GENERALLY MAINTAINED A STEADY GROWTH AND GRADUAL ADVANCE TOWARDS CONSOLIDATION AND IMPROVEMENT/REFINEMENT, WITHOUT INDEED, HAVING TO UNDERGO ANY MAJOR DISRUPTION OR SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE. ALL IN ALL, THE SYSTEM EXPERIENCED AND PASSED THROUGH 3 DISTINCT STAGES OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT, NAMELY, HINDU KINGDOM, MUSLIM-RULE AND BRITISH COLONIAL DOMINATION. THE 4^TH AND CURRENT ERA, COMMENCED WITH THE PARTITION OF INDIA AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PAKISTAN AS A SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT STATE. THE SYSTEM, THUS, HAS EVOLVED THROUGH A PROCESS OF REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT. THIS CONCLUSION ENJOYS NEAR UNANIMITY AMONG HISTORIANS AND COMMENTATORS OF INDIAN LEGAL HISTORY.

THE DEPUTY-COMMISSIONER AS DISTRICT MAGISTRATE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. THE DISTRICT JUDGE USED TO BE IN CHARGE OF CIVIL JUDICIAL WORK, AND BOTH OFFICERS ARE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE DIVISIONAL AND SESSIONS JUDGE OF THE SHAHPUR CIVIL DIVISION. THERE WERE THREE MUNSIFS: ONE SITS AT HEAD-QUARTERS, ONE AT BHAKKAR, AND ONE AT KAROR. THE FRONTIER CRIMES REGULATION WAS IN FORCE THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT. IN 1900 MR A.B. KETTEWELL WAS APPOINTED AS DISTRICT JUDGE DERA ISMAIL KHAN AND LT S.A.J.OBERIEN WAS DISTRICT JUDGE BANNU. IN 1901 ON BECOMING MIANWALI AS NEW DISTRICT SARDER BALAWAT SINGH WAS APPOINTED AS DISTRICT JUDGE .

IN ISA KHEL PIOR TO INDEPENDENCE NO SEPARATE MUNSIF WAS DETAIL AND MUNSIF FROM MIANWALI USED TO VISIT THE TEHSIL. IN 1899 MR TENDER WAS THE MUNSIF OF MIANWALI AND IN 1900 SARDER MUHAMMAD YOUSUF WAS APPOINTED AS MUNSIF CLASS 1 . TILL 1910 STRENGTH OF JUDGES IN MIANWALI WAS VERY LESS BUT ON MIANWALI BECOMING DISTRICT THE STRENGTH INCREASES AND BY 1935 JUDGES STRENGTH WAS 37. PRIOR TO INDEPENDENCE BAR MEMBERS STRENGTH NEVER CROSSES THE FIGURE OF 38 .IN 1938 BAR MEMBERS STRENGTH WAS 38 . IN 1944 BAR MEMBERS STRENGTH WAS 44 , IN 1945 BAR MEMBERS STRENGTH WAS 35 AND SURPRISINGLY IN 1946 BAR MEMBERS STRENGTH WAS 19 ONLY .MIANWALI BAR WAS JOINED WITH HIGH COURT BAR LAHORE IN 1935. NOW THE STRENGTH OF MIANWALI BAR IS 130 MEMBERS .

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INCUMBENCY OF DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGES, MIANWALI

Sr. No	Name of Office	From	To
1	Rai Bahadur Chunni Lal	17-01-1913	08-11-1914
2	Khan Bahadur Abdul Ghaffar	09-11-1914	11-04-1915
3	Khan Bahadur Khawaja Tassaduq	12-04-1915	23-06-1915
4	F.W. Kanna Way	08-10-1915	11-06-1916
5	F.W. Skemp	12-06-1916	18-07-1916
6	B.H. Bird	12-11-1916	31-12-1918
7	Rai Sahb Lala Gana Ram	10-05-1920	09-11-1920
8	P.J. Rusi	10-11-1920	28-09-1921
9	Mr. Ihsan Ul Haq	29-09-1921	12-11-1923
10	Rai Sahb Lala Murari Lal	20-11-1923	04-11-1924
11	Rai Sahb Lala Shibu Lal	16-12-1924	02-02-1926
12	Khan Bahadur Munshi Rahim Bux	29-04-1926	28-03-1928
13	Bhagat Jagan Nath	28-02-1928	07-10-1929
14	Lala Chunni Lal	12-10-1929	23-12-1929
15	Pandit Devi Dyal Joshi	02-01-1930	15-10-1930
16	Mr. Hamid Asghar	19-10-1930	11-05-1931
17	S.S.S Hukam Singh	12-05-1931	01-11-1932
18	Mr. P.R.B May	15-12-1932	05-03-1934
19	G.U. White Head	10-03-1934	01-04-1935
20	J.A. Rehman	02-04-1935	10-04-1937
21	H.A Majid	13-04-1937	24-07-1937
22	S.M Haq	25-07-1937	21-09-1940
23	S.S.S Kartar Singh	01-10-1940	01-05-1941
24	Rai Sahb Lala Ram Karwar	02-05-1941	09-10-1941
25	S.S.S. Gurmukh Singh Mongia	10-10-1941	30-04-1943
26	Sh. Laiq Ali	23-06-1943	31-08-1943
27	Syed Muhammad Abdullah	04-10-1943	01-07-1944
28	A.L Fletcher	11-07-1944	11-05-1947
29	Mr. Muhammad Abdul Latif	12-05-1947	26-01-1948
30	Sh. Bashir Ahmed	27-01-1948	24-01-1951
31	Sh. Masud Ahmed	25-12-1951	16-10-1953
32	Ch. Fazal Ilahi	24-10-1953	03-11-1955
33	D. Fazal Ud Din	04-11-1955	06-04-1956
34	Sh. Attaullah Qureshi	07-04-1956	17-12-1956
35	Ch. Aziz Ahmed Waraich	01-11-1957	30-09-1959
36	Mirza Bashir Ahmed	13-10-1959	26-04-1961
37	Ch. Muhammad Anwar	27-04-1961	27-03-1964
38	Qureshi Gul Muhammad	28-03-1964	01-11-1965
39	Mr. M Karam Shah	17-11-1965	23-03-1967
40	Sardar Haji Muhammad Khan	21-09-1967	30-03-1969
41	Sh. Muhammad Tareef	25-08-2008	22-10-2008
42	Mr. Sohail Nasir	23-10-2008	06-05-2009
43	Sardar Ahmed Naeem	11-05-2009	27-10-2010
44	Mehboob Elahi Sheikh (Late)	28-10-2010	28-02-2011
45	Wamiq Javed	01-03-2011	12-09-2011

INCUMBENCY OF SENIOR CIVIL JUDGES, MIANWALI

Sr. No	Name of Office	From	To
1	LAL MURARI LAL	25-07-1920	25-07-1922
2	SD DWARKA NATH	25-07-1923	25-07-1924
3	SH.MUHAMAMD HUSSAIN	25-07-1924	25-07-1925
4	SYED GHULAM YAZDANI	25-07-1926	25-07-1927
5	GURMUKH SINGH MONGIA	25-07-1928	25-07-1930
6	MIRZA ABDUL RAB	01-01-1931	01-01-1932
7	KHAN AGHA AHMED KHAN	25-07-1931	25-07-1931
8	SYED SHOUKAT HUSSAIN	01-01-1933	01-01-1934
9	SARDAR SAHIB SARDAR G.S MONGIA	25-07-1934	25-07-1934
10	KHAN AHMED KHAN	25-07-1934	25-07-1935
11	L.MELA RAM	25-07-1936	25-07-1936
12	LAL.SHANKAR LAL	25-07-1936	25-07-1937
13	SARDAR GIAN SINGH SANDHU	25-07-1938	25-07-1939
14	T.C. SETHI	25-07-1939	25-07-1940
15	SARDAR GIAN SINGH	25-07-1940	25-07-1941
16	SH. KARAM ELAHI	25-07-1942	25-07-1943
17	L-GURU DATTA	25-07-1943	25-07-1945
18	L-SHAM LAL	25-07-1946	25-07-1947
19	CH.FAZAL HAQ	22-05-1947	01-06-1948
20	SH.M.IBRAHIM	09-02-1948	14-04-1948
21	SH.MUHAMMAD AKBAR	15-04-1948	17-01-1949
22	ABDUL SAMAD KHAN	24-01-1949	08-08-1950
23	SARDAR ATTA ULLAH	15-08-1950	20-11-1952
24	CH.MUHAMMAD GHANI	01-12-1952	23-03-1953
25	QURESHI GUL MUHAMMAD	10-04-1954	07-08-1954
26	M.AFZAL KHAN	13-08-1954	02-10-1955
27	SH.ABDUL HAMEED	08-10-1955	01-03-1957
28	CH.M.ILYAS	09-03-1957	16-03-1957
29	KHAN IHSAN UL HAQ	30-10-1957	08-10-1958
30	SH.ABDUL HAYEE	08-09-1958	24-04-1961
31	ABID ULLAH KHAN	04-05-1961	10-06-1963
32	CH.BASHIR AHMED	26-06-1963	09-09-1964
33	CH.HASSAN NAWAZ	26-10-1964	04-06-1965
34	MASOOD AHMAD ANSAR	05-06-1965	15-04-1966
35	SHEIKH MUHAMMAD SHAFI	03-05-1966	20-01-1967
36	M.ABDUL MAJEED	20-01-1967	10-01-1969
37	CH.ABDUL MAJEED	10-01-1969	05-03-1971
38	M.RAMZAN	26-04-1971	18-07-1973
39	M.MUHAMMAD AFZAL	01-09-1973	11-09-1974
40	MUHAMMAD ASLAM SIMRA	12-09-1974	28-06-1976
41	ZULFIQAR ALI KHAN	29-06-1976	05-03-1980
42	M.AHMED KHAN	06-03-1980	03-05-1980
43	MIAN ASHUQ MUHAMMAD	17-01-1982	07-05-1984
44	MALIK ZULFIQAR ALI	28-05-1984	13-07-1985
45	FYAZ AHMED BHUTTA	27-07-1985	16-08-1988
46	ATTA MUHAMMAD NAZ	13-08-1988	04-03-1990
47	ABDUL QAYYUM RAJA	12-03-1990	01-03-1992
48	SIJJAD AHMED CHAWAN	09-03-1992	31-07-1994
49	M.SADDIQUE TABBASUM	10-08-1994	30-06-1997
50	SARDAR M.RANA	01-12-1997	02-01-1999
51	M.AFZAL ZAHID	09-01-1999	28-10-1999
52	M.IQBAL KHAN	19-11-1999	28-03-2001
53	MAHR.M.YOUSAF	03-04-2001	16-10-2001
54	CH.M.YOUSAF AUJALA	16-10-2001	23-10-2003
55	M.TAMMAR HAYAT	23-06-2003	02-01-2006
56	M.SHABBIR HUSSAIN	05-06-2006	30-11-2006
57	AMJAD IQBAL RANJHA	23-01-2007	30-11-2006
58	SYED ALI ABBAS	02-02-2007	09-06-2007
59	ABDUL SATTAR LANGAH	12-06-2007	25-06-2007
60	SHAHID SIKANDER	29-06-2009	24-12-2010
61	MIAN MUHAMMAD ABDUL RAFIQUE	03-01-2011	00-00-0000