Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977
The Clerk of the Court of the District and Sessions Court shall further— (a) examine returns and statements submitted by the Judicial and Executive Magistrates and notes thereon. (b) sign, seal and despatch certified copies of the judgments and orders in Appeal or Revision, to the lower Court concerned in cases of acquittal or conviction of Government servants, allocated Government servants to Panchayats and Talati-cum-secretary of the Gram Panchayat and any other member of the Panchayat service, to their Departmental Heads. (c) examine reports of Judicial Magistrates regarding committal proceedings and submit them to the Sessions Judge for fixing the dates of trial of the cases committed or likely to be committed to the Sessions Court. (d) examine periodically the records deposited in the record room and report to the Sessions Judge in matters which appeal to call for notice. (e) see to the smooth and efficient working of all the sections of the office. (f) attend promptly to the complaints and inquiries made by members of the public having business in the office or in the Courts. The duties and powers of the Clerk of the Court in relation to Civil business in the District Court as prescribed in the Civil Manual shall apply mutatis mutandis to criminal business in the Sessions Court.