Chattisgarh HC Upholds Dismissal Of Judicial Officer Who Lodged Criminal Case Against HC Judges [Read Judgment]
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Chattisgarh HC Upholds Dismissal Of Judicial Officer Who Lodged Criminal Case Against HC Judges [Read Judgment]

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The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld the dismissal of a judicial officer who had filed criminal cases against the former Chief Justice and Judge of the High Court.Prabhakar Gwal, who was a judicial officer in Chhattisgarh, was dismissed from after the Full Court recommended his dismissal without inquiry after it found that he, through his wife, filed a criminal case against many. The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld the dismissal of a judicial officer who had filed criminal cases against the former Chief Justice and Judge of the High Court. Prabhakar Gwal, who was a judicial officer in Chhattisgarh, was dismissed from after the Full Court recommended his dismissal without inquiry after it found that he, through his wife, filed a criminal case against many persons including the then Chief Justice and a senior judge of the High Court. The court observed: "An officer of the subordinate judiciary if he shows the courage to file a criminal case against the Chief Justice of the High Court along wit another senior Judge of the High Court and a host of senior high ranking officers of the state government making all of them as accused persons, it does not need any imagination that continuing the officer in the judicial service with his magisterial and judicial powers he would have created havoc and would have brought much embarrassment to the institution.

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