Supreme Court of India
Awani Kumar Upadhyay v. The Honble High Court of Judicature at Allahabad and Ors.
INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.
1 Supreme Court bench has cited this judgment.
What the Court ordered
We hold that the adverse remarks made against the appellant were neither justified nor called for.
Judgment, page 10
From the headnote
Judiciary - Strictures against judicial officer - Propriety of - Held: Legal system acknowledges fallibility of the Judges, hence provides for appeals and revisions - Remarks/ observations and strictures against lower judicial officers should be avoided particularly when the officer has no occasion to put forth his reasonings - In the instant case, in view of the facts, strictures against the judicial officer not justified. The High Court, while allowing a second appeal, passed severe strictures against the appellant, who was a judicial officer, and had decided the additional issues in the
Authorities it was built on
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 relied on
Sign in free to read it
- The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
- The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
- Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
- Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
- Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
An email address, no password.