Model Courts disposed of 50,743 cases in 6 months.

RAWALPINDI -- The 465 Model Courts which have been set up across the country to provide speedy justice and to clear the massive backlog of cases decided 50,743 cases including 7,356 cases of murder and 12,168 of narcotics during last six months.

Supreme Court Monitoring Cell Director General Sohail Nasir told reporter that witnesses of 124,669 were recorded during hearing of various cases while 182 model criminal courts also disposed of 13,571 criminal cases along with murder and narcotics cases.

Similarly the 125 civil courts disposed of 11,330 civil and 5,560 family disputes during the period, adding 158 model magistrates courts also disposed of 785 appeals in rent disputed...