New Delhi, June 9 -- A Delhi court has pulled up a magistrate over "unacceptable malady" of "ctrl+C and ctrl+V" (cut, copy, paste) jurisprudence for passing acquittal orders in a 2018 cheque bounce case after finding facts had been lifted in the judgment from another order.

In an order passed on June 6, additional sessions judge (ASJ) Hargurvarinder Singh Jaggi of Saket courts took exception to the acquittal.

While "the advent of technology, word processors, and personal computers was intended to act as an administrative aid to the judiciary, bringing efficiency and speed to judicial drafting," the judge said that, while passing the judgment, the magistrate had injudiciously relied on the "copy-paste" function of a word processor, showi...