Administrator
17 May 2025
After Jharkhand High Court came under the scanner of the Supreme Court again after three students complained that judgement has not been pronounced in their matter related to the appointment of home guards since 2023, there appears to be silence in corridors of higher judiciary in Jharkhand.
The Registrar General was quiet. The office of the Chief Justice was not approachable for comment. Neither the Advocate General of the High Court had taken any legal initiative to make an appeal for pronouncement of the pending judgement.
Sad reality indeed.
In fact, the top court on Friday had issued a notice to the registrar general of the Jharkhand HC, directing the official to furnish a report with respect to all the civil matters where arguments have been heard and judgements have not been pronounced, including the writ petitions filed by the petitioners and other co-petitioners in the high court.
Why was the notice issued by the top court to Jharkhand HC?
Consider this.
The SC states that the instant Writ Petition was filed by fourconvicts. Out of them, petitioner Nos.1, 2 and 3 were convicted by the Trial Courts under Sections 302 IPC and other related offences and were sentenced to undergo life imprisonment on 12.06.2012,04.08.2014 and 25.03.2014, respectively.
Similarly, petitioner No.4 was a convict under Sections 376 and 346 IPC. He was convicted on 06.09.2018 and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment. All the four petitioners have filed Criminal Appeals bearing numbers 764/2012, 723/2014, 354/2014 and 1169/2018 before the Jharkhand High Court.
The instant Writ Petition has been filed, inter alia, seeking a direction to the learned High Court for pronouncement of judgments in the above-mentioned Criminal Appeals which, according to the petitioners, were finally heard by a Division Bench of the High Court on 27.04.2022, 05.05.2022, 07.06.2022 and 05.01.2022, respectively.
Enclosed are Supreme Court’s Records of Proceedings in the Case.
