Fraud by court docket employees has hostile impact on justice system: HC

PRAYAGRAJ: Observing that fraud by a court docket employees had far-reaching detrimental results on the justice system and eroded public belief within the judiciary, the Allahabad excessive court docket refused to quash an FIR and keep arrest of a court docket staffer in opposition to whom an FIR was lodged for allegedly committing forgery of court docket paperwork.

The court docket refused to quash an FIR and keep arrest underneath sections 420 (dishonest), 120-B (conspiracy) and different sections of IPC in opposition to the petitioner . (Pic for illustration)

Dismissing a writ petition filed by one Suresh Kumar Mishra, who’s accused of committing fraud whereas working as a senior assistant within the court docket of chief judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM), Sonbhadra, a division bench of justices Siddharth and Vinod Diwakar stated, “When court docket employees abuse their authority for private achieve, it compromises the integrity of judicial choices and raises questions in regards to the legitimacy of authorized proceedings”.

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The court docket refused to quash an FIR and keep arrest underneath sections 420 (dishonest), 120-B (conspiracy) and different sections of IPC in opposition to the petitioner .

In the course of the court docket proceedings, the counsel for the petitioner contended that the petitioner himself was a complainant within the current case and, subsequently, couldn’t be implicated as an accused.

Rejecting the plea of the petitioner, the court docket in its choice dated Could 7 stated that the investigation was on the pre-mature stage and the position of the petitioner had surfaced as a kingpin in executing the crime. Additional, discovering that the allegations in opposition to the petitioner clearly constituted a cognizable offence justifying the registration of the FIR and the investigation thereon, the court docket refused to permit the felony writ petition and keep his arrest.

Thus, the petition was dismissed with the course of finishing the investigation as quickly as doable.

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