Supreme Court of India

Krishna Prasad Verma (d) Thr. Lrs. v. State of Bihar & Ors.

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Reported as [2019] 12 S.C.R. 861

Bench Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose JJ.

Decided 26 September 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above discussion, we allow the appeal, set aside the judgment of the High Court and quash all the orders pas sed against the delinquent officer.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Judiciary: Judicial service – Disciplinary proceedings – Against judicial officer – On two charges (i) granting bail without n oticing order of superior court and (ii) closing evidence without ensuring production of witnesses – Found guilty of misconduct – Propriety of – Held: Art.235 of the Constitution vests control of subordinate courts upon High Court – High Courts are also the protectors and guardians of judges falling within their administra tive control – In order to ensure independence of subordinate judi ciary disciplinary action should not be taken against jud icial officers just

Authorities it was built on

1999 Zunjarrao Bhikaji Nagarkar v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 10
1988 Ishwar Chand Jain v. High Court of Punjab & Haryana and Another cited by 7
2007 Ramesh Chander Singh v. High Court of Allahabad and Anr cited by 5
2001 P.C. Joshi v. State of U.P. and Ors. cited by 5
1993 Union of India and Ors. v. K. K. Dhawan cited by 5
1992 Union of India and Ors. v. A.N. Saxena cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2026 Nirbhay Singh Suliya v. State of Madhya Pradesh relied on
2022 Abhay Jain v. The High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan and Anr relied on
2025 Amresh Shrivastava v. The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. referred to
2022 Muzaffar Husain v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Anr. referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to

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