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Days aft a Supreme Court Bench criticised an Allahabad High Court justice for passing an ‘unreasoned’ bail bid successful a dowry decease case, the Oudh Bar Association associated with the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court has written to the Chief Justice of India, raising interest regarding ‘repeated adverse remarks concerning the Allahabad HC’.
In an bid connected February 9, a Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan had termed the bid passed by Justice Pankaj Bhatia of the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad HC arsenic 1 of the “most shocking and disappointing orders that it has travel crossed implicit a play of time”.
Stating that the SC’s remarks had a ‘huge demoralising and chilling effect connected him’, Justice Bhatia requested the Chief Justice of the High Court not to delegate him bail cases successful the future.
Against this backdrop, the Oudh Bar Association, successful a missive to CJI Surya Kant written connected February 18, has urged him to counsel each Supreme Court judges to debar passing ‘stigmatic’ orders which person a chilling effect connected the moving capableness of a particular justice against whom the orders are passed.
The lawyers relation pointed retired that the judges are already moving nether mounting unit from the ever-increasing pendency of cases.
“…there is sometimes overreach by our Apex Court successful passing remarks connected the capableness of a justice nether an impugned order, which has superior jolting intelligence effect connected his oregon her judicial mind,” the missive of the barroom relation reads.
It added that the Bar is the parent of the Bench and is the champion justice to measure the show of each Judge successful the justness transportation strategy which runs connected 2 parallel wheels.
“....any specified remark by Apex Court adverse to the dignity of a justice connected the judicial broadside has nary uncertainty chilling effect not lone connected the peculiar justice but connected members of the Bar astatine large,” the barroom relation said, and requested the CJI to reappraisal and expunge the ‘adverse’ remark made against Justice Pankaj Bhatia by the SC Bench.
