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The federal government and the four provinces were likely to decide over the revival of the executive magistracy on Thursday (tomorrow) and grant magisterial powers to deputy commissioners as well as other district officials to control the law and order situation, inflation and also address minor criminal acts, The News learnt on Tuesday.
Informed sources told The News that the four provincial governments were of the considered view that the abolition of the executive magistracy did not achieve positive results and instead, added to the problems of controlling the law and order situation and inflation. They said that the provinces were unanimous in repealing Ordinance XXXVII of 2001 and now submitted proposals to the federal government to revive the magisterial system to restore public faith and law and order.
The sources said that in order to enable the DCs to play an effective role in controlling law and order and inflation, three sections of the Criminal Procedure Code, namely 10, 11, and 12, were likely to be changed.
A high level meeting of the Inter-Provincial Coordination Committee (IPCC) was scheduled to be held in Islamabad on Thursday (tomorrow) to finalise the recommendations of the four provinces to bring amendments to the relevant sections of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cr.P.C.) to revive the executive magistracy.
The IPCC comprises the chief secretaries of the four provinces and other senior officials of concerned federal departments/divisions. The four chief ministers or their representatives were expected to attend the meeting to be chaired by IPC Minister Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani. The committee was given the task to address the “vertical issues” related to all the provinces.
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah, late on Monday night, held a meeting to present the views of the Sindh government about the revival of the executive magistracy and other issues.
Sources privy to this meeting told The News that the meeting held at the CM House was informed that the Sindh Cabinet, in another meeting held on January 29, 2011, had discussed the revival of the executive magistracy and deliberated upon the issue. The Sindh cabinet formed a sub-committee comprising the then home minister Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Mirza, Law Minister Muhammad Ayaz Soomro as well as MQM’s provincial minister and its parliamentary leader in Sindh Assembly Syed Sardar Ahmed.
The ministerial committee was told to give its suggestions for the revival of the executive magistracy by repealing Ordinance No. XXXVII of 2001 by the Parliament so that the original provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of 1898 could be restored. The Sindh Cabinet was of the view that the revival of magistracy was not ‘incompatible’ with the local government system or law.
The cabinet formed the ministerial committee in the light of the recommendations of the meeting of the four chief secretaries held on January 24, 2011. The meeting of the chief secretaries recommended that all provincial governments make a reference to the IPC Division Islamabad to initiate the needed amendments in the C.r.PC through the Parliament.
The objectives and reasons for the revival of the executive magistracy were stated to be the enforcement of the provisions of major and minor acts like “control of prices, regulating processions, measures against violation of Irrigation Act, Electricity Act, Anti-Encroachment Act, ending private and public nuisance by invoking the relevant provisions of Cr.P.C. and invoking section 107 of the code to deal with habitual offenders, resolution of property disputes under section 143 of the Cr.P.C. and so on.”
The Sindh cabinet’s ministerial committee, in its recommendations, proposed that the chief minister revive the executive magistracy as recommended by all the four chief secretaries in the meeting held on January 24, 2011, under the chairmanship of the federal secretary Finance Division, Islamabad.
Informed sources told The News that the four provincial governments were of the considered view that the abolition of the executive magistracy did not achieve positive results and instead, added to the problems of controlling the law and order situation and inflation. They said that the provinces were unanimous in repealing Ordinance XXXVII of 2001 and now submitted proposals to the federal government to revive the magisterial system to restore public faith and law and order.
The sources said that in order to enable the DCs to play an effective role in controlling law and order and inflation, three sections of the Criminal Procedure Code, namely 10, 11, and 12, were likely to be changed.
A high level meeting of the Inter-Provincial Coordination Committee (IPCC) was scheduled to be held in Islamabad on Thursday (tomorrow) to finalise the recommendations of the four provinces to bring amendments to the relevant sections of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cr.P.C.) to revive the executive magistracy.
The IPCC comprises the chief secretaries of the four provinces and other senior officials of concerned federal departments/divisions. The four chief ministers or their representatives were expected to attend the meeting to be chaired by IPC Minister Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani. The committee was given the task to address the “vertical issues” related to all the provinces.
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah, late on Monday night, held a meeting to present the views of the Sindh government about the revival of the executive magistracy and other issues.
Sources privy to this meeting told The News that the meeting held at the CM House was informed that the Sindh Cabinet, in another meeting held on January 29, 2011, had discussed the revival of the executive magistracy and deliberated upon the issue. The Sindh cabinet formed a sub-committee comprising the then home minister Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Mirza, Law Minister Muhammad Ayaz Soomro as well as MQM’s provincial minister and its parliamentary leader in Sindh Assembly Syed Sardar Ahmed.
The ministerial committee was told to give its suggestions for the revival of the executive magistracy by repealing Ordinance No. XXXVII of 2001 by the Parliament so that the original provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of 1898 could be restored. The Sindh Cabinet was of the view that the revival of magistracy was not ‘incompatible’ with the local government system or law.
The cabinet formed the ministerial committee in the light of the recommendations of the meeting of the four chief secretaries held on January 24, 2011. The meeting of the chief secretaries recommended that all provincial governments make a reference to the IPC Division Islamabad to initiate the needed amendments in the C.r.PC through the Parliament.
The objectives and reasons for the revival of the executive magistracy were stated to be the enforcement of the provisions of major and minor acts like “control of prices, regulating processions, measures against violation of Irrigation Act, Electricity Act, Anti-Encroachment Act, ending private and public nuisance by invoking the relevant provisions of Cr.P.C. and invoking section 107 of the code to deal with habitual offenders, resolution of property disputes under section 143 of the Cr.P.C. and so on.”
The Sindh cabinet’s ministerial committee, in its recommendations, proposed that the chief minister revive the executive magistracy as recommended by all the four chief secretaries in the meeting held on January 24, 2011, under the chairmanship of the federal secretary Finance Division, Islamabad.
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