Supreme Court Reprimands Registry For Accepting Affidavit From Party Not Impleaded, Seeks Report On Its Working
Live LawThe Supreme Court recently again expressed strong displeasure with its Registry's repeated procedural lapses. This time the Court criticized the registry officials for accepting a counter-affidavit from an individual who was not even impleaded as a party in the case. Despite judicial orders highlighting non-compliance with Supreme Court Rules in SLP registrations, the Court said no corrective action appears to have been taken till date. “This Court has also time and again drawn the attention of the Registry with regard to the non-compliance of the Supreme Court Rules and other Rules of Procedures in respect of the registration of the SLPs by passing Judicial Orders, however there does not appear to be any follow-up exercise undertaken to rectify the lapses and discontinue the wrong practices followed by the Registry dehors the Supreme Court Rules.”, the court added. Refusing to accept the plea that there was not rule covering the situation, the Court stated that since the proposed party was not impleaded in the case therefore the concerned Section/Branch of the Registry could not have accepted the said counter affidavit or the documents from the proposed party, and made such counter/documents part of the record “When the applicant was not a party respondent in the SLP, he could not have filed either the counter affidavit or presented any documents along therewith.
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