The lack of judges impedes the judicial process in Habiganj district, with at least seven key posts in the courts of the chief judicial magistrate and district and sessions judge remaining vacant for a long time.
Around 37,000 cases belonging to both courts have backlogged.
The lawyers association in the district held a human chain demanding recruitment of judges to those vacant posts.
The judicial process is conducted by only six judges instead of 12 in the court of district and sessions judge.
On the other hand, only two judges carry out functions in the chief judicial magistrate court.
Two posts of assistant judge, senior assistant judge and joint district sessions judge remained empty in the district and sessions judge court while four of judicial magistrate and two of senior judicial magistrate in chief judicial magistrate court.
Lawyers said they were facing problems in dealing with the cases.
They said their clients seeking justice were not having any schedules to deal lawsuits.
The justice seekers alleged that they were lost and undone after a long wait for getting justice and spending much on the litigation.
Saleh Uddin Ahmed, general secretary of the district lawyers’ associations, said: “We cannot give any satisfactory answers to our clients in the wake of the crisis.”
There would be a big problem if the crisis persists, added the lawyer.