Meerut, Sept. 19 -- Additional district and sessions judge (Muzaffarnagar) Ravi Kumar Diwakar, who was in the news recently for awarding death sentences to 23 convicts in five months between April and September this year, has questioned the then district judge's decision to recall 97 pending cases from his court last month and transfer them to other courts.

"A judge's job is to deliver justice, but if injustice is done to the judge himself, where does he go?" Diwakar observed in his 35-page judgement, while acquitting an accused in a nearly decade-old case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on Thursday.

"No public servant can behave like a king. He must provide a legal reason for every administrative order i...