New Delhi: More than four years after a senior bureaucrat from Assam died for the recovery of honor, the Supreme Court released him against the allegations of the court while deciding his 12-year-old appeal and decided that higher officials could not be insulted to insult the court to alleged ignoring court orders by His subordinate officer.
A former Chief Executive of the Assam Committee of Agricultural Products Assam, Dr.
U Bora, was convicted of the insults of the court by the High Court of Gahati in 2009 to pick up certain allegations in alleged violations of HC orders.
Bora has appealed in 2009 at SC.
But, he died in 2017 and the trial of him subsided in SC.
Judge Sanjay Kishan Kiss and M M Sundresh blamed HC for continuing the insults of the court against Bora and others for alleged irregularities by certain subordinate officers, which also on the supervision found by SC.
Putting the principle of the humiliation of the feared court, Bench said, “Only because a subordinate official act by ignoring the orders passed by the court, accountability cannot be bound to higher officials without higher knowledge …
insults from court laws , 1971 explained civil insult to mean deliberate disobedience over court decisions , then bureaucrats cannot be blamed under the insult of court law to take action according to one of the two possible views.
The insult arises when there is evidence without doubts about accidental, conscious, and intentional allegations for court orders, he said.
“While dealing with a disgusted petition, the court is not expected to conduct a mobile investigation and exceeded the assessment allegedly violated.
The principle must be applied with more enthusiasm when the question is involved and they are raised before but consciously not dealing with creating certain forums to decide on the original process , “Bench said.
In this case, SC said it was a specific case of the applicant that they did not violate the court’s direction.
Cannot request officials in an insult to subordinates: SC
