District courts of the first,

Second and third grades

There are 397 court of first instance distributed all over the country. Their power are prescribed by the civil procedure act of 1983 and the code of criminal procedure of 1991 .the chief justice defines their pecuniary powers in civil cases and their penal powers vis-à-vis the imposing of fine  also criminal cases . they also dispose of the matters summarily and non summarily depending on the merits of cases.