PRAYAGRAJ, April 27 -- The Allahabad high court has directed the high court registry to avoid using terms such as "court below" and "lower court" in official records and procedures.

Noting that these phrases do not represent the correct legal terminology, Justice Abdul Shahid ordered while deciding a criminal appeal that official records must use the term "trial court" or refer directly to the concerned designated court.

In this regard, the bench in its judgment dated April 24 referred to the Supreme Court's 2024 verdict which stressed that describing any court as a "Lower Court" was against the ethos of the Constitution.

The Supreme Court had observed, "It will be appropriate if the Registry of this Court stops referring to the Trial ...