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POSITIVE EXTERNALITY OF FAST TRACK COURTS
Fast track courts have been set up on the recommendation of the Eleventh Finance Commision
funded by the Ministry of Finance. These courts take up session cases pending for two years or
more and the cases of undertrials in jails. It has almost become fashionable these days to have a
separate tribunal for dealing with deferent category of case. The concept of fast track court for deal-
ing with particular kinds of offence is also well established and believe that separate tribunals and
fast track courts have an important role to play in the near future, but only as supplements to the
ordinary judicial system. Thus, such tribunals and courts are useful when there is specific domain or
industry knowledge required or where a particular category case/offence is deemed to require
speedier resolution/trial for the moment. For other cases, our focus should be on improving and
having recourse to the normal judicial system and we should not avoid the opportunity to transfer a
the difficult categories of cases to special tribunals or fast track courts (because ordinary courts
cannot cope) 5 .
5
Sameer Kochhar, Growth and Governance: Essays in honour of Nandan Nilekani, Skoch Media Pvt Ltd, 2014, p 35