High court should not issue administrative direction to lower court relating to conduct of case behind back of party
“Directions issued on the administrative side in a manner that is likely to instil any psychosis, fear or otherwise, on the part of the trial Judge or administrative directions that may give room for an impression that the High Court is monitoring the progress of the case, cannot be issued behind the back of the parties.
Holding that any addition, deletion or modification of the contents of a judgment will tantamount to alteration of the judgment, the Madras High Court Bench here has held that judges are not entitled to make such alterations after affixing their signatures in the judgments and pronouncing them in open court.
A Division Bench of Justices V. Ramasubramanian and V.M. Velumani passed the ruling on a writ appeal filed by former DMK Minister N. Suresh Rajan of Nagercoil.
The appellant had challenged administrative instructions issued by the High Court’s Registrar last year to a lower court judge hearing a disproportionate assets case against him.
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