On December 3, 2024, in Ravi Prakash Tiwary vs The State of Bihar, Patna High Court's Justice Anjani Kumar Sharan of observed: "In my view, this case ought to have been listed under the heading 'For Admission', but it has been listed under the heading 'For Orders (On Office Notes)-I'. This is not a solitary case, which has been listed under the wrong heading. Today, four cases of similar types have been listed under the wrong heading. It is not the first day that the said mistake has been committed. I am pained to observe that office is committing these types of mistakes regularly....It is high time to fix responsibility for such mistakes to stop these types of mistakes wasting the Court's valuable time."
The order states that "at present about 544 newly recruited Assistant Section Officers are working in this Court, excluding their predecessors. I feel that there are some lapses on administrative side to check, control and to properly take work from newly recruited incumbents as well as their predecessors." He added, " I feel that except the Assistant Section Officers, all are merely signing authorities and more so without checking the contents."
The order underlines that "Vide office notes dated 20.11.2024, it is reported that jointness petition has been filed, which is kept at Flag ‘A’."
The Court directed the Registrar General of the Court "to seek an explanation from the Deputy Registrar, Assistant Registrar and Section Officer of the Section concerned on the administrative side within seven days furnishing the reason as to why these types of mistakes recur and under what circumstances proper monitoring of work is not done. It is also advisable to check, monitor and make surprise inspection of the offices of this Court at intervals so that best result is yielded in future."
The case in question was filed on April 15, 2024 and registered on April 18, 2024. The petitioner from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh approached the High Court apprehending his arrest in connection with Complaint Case No. 603 of 2022 for the offence registered under sections 498(A) of the Indian Penal Code lodged on February 19, 2022 in Saidpur, Vaishali by Shweta Tiwary, the complainant, the wife of the petitioner.
On May 21, 2024, Justice Rajiv Roy had passed an interim order saying, "let no coercive steps be taken against the petitioner in connection with Complaint Case No. 603 of 2022 pending in the Court of learned A.C.J.M. 1st Vaishali at Hajipur." On August 7, 2024, Justice Prabhat Kumar Singh had passed an order saying, "previous interim order shall continue." Responding to the prayer of the counsel for the petitioner, "four weeks’ peremptory time" was "granted to him to file a jointness petition" by Justice Sharan bench. The order reads: "Re-notify on 21.11.2024. Interim order, if any, shall continue in the meanwhile."
In his order of December 3, 2024, Justice Sharan observes: "On earlier occasion also, I have come across the cases in which case diary called for have been received but office had placed the matter for issuance of reminder. Inasmuch as I was facing these types of mistakes regularly, earlier on two or three occasions, I had called for the officer/person concerned to correct these mistakes and they were also told by my Court Master verbally. But, it appears to me that they are adamant not to correct themselves. When in previous years, this roster was allotted to this Bench, I had come across the same problems but on the plea that there is shortage of staff, I had neither taken any action nor called for anyone and ignored
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