Allahabad High Court decide Prashant Kumar. Photo: allahabadhighcourt.in

The Supreme Court is scheduled on August 8 to listen to once more a disposed of case by which it had, earlier within the week, made scathing observations towards an Allahabad High Court decide for passing an “absurd” order.

A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan had reprimanded the High Court decide, Justice Prashant Kumar, for “slicing a sorry determine for himself”, and making “a mockery of justice”.

The order had additionally delivered to fore the Supreme Court’s apprehensions in regards to the High Court judiciary’s efficiency.

“We are at our wits’ finish to grasp what’s flawed with the Indian judiciary on the degree of the High Court. At instances we’re left questioning whether or not such orders are handed on some extraneous concerns or it’s sheer ignorance of regulation. Whatever or not it’s, passing of such absurd and inaccurate orders is one thing unpardonable,” a Bench of Justice J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan had noticed in an August 4 order, disposing of the case.  

The apex court docket had taken stern exception to Justice Kumar discovering nothing flawed in a litigant submitting a legal case towards a purchaser in a purely civil dispute over an unpaid steadiness of cash in a sale transaction.

The Bench mentioned the High Court decide had discovered nothing flawed in permitting a legal case for ‘legal breach of belief’ to be registered within the civil dispute. 

The Bench had additional requested the Allahabad High Court Chief Justice to take away Justice Kumar from the legal roster and never assign any legal case to the latter until he demitted workplace.

Published – August 08, 2025 03:00 am IST