Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 102 · Decided 13 February 2013
Awani Kumar Upadhyay v. The Honble High Court of Judicature at Allahabad and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 102 · [2013] 3 S.C.R. 416
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1340/2013
- Decided
- 13 February 2013
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, J.S. KHEHAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Judiciary - Strictures against judicial officer - Propriety of C - Held: Legal system acknowledges fallibility of the Judges, hence provides for appeals and revisions - Remarks/ observations and strictures against lower judicial officers should be officer has no occasion to put forth his reasonings - In the instant case, in D 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 E a judicial officer, and had decided
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