SC slams guj hc for losing key case documents
New Delhi, March 31 -- Taking strong exception to the disappearance of key documents from court records, the Supreme Court has pulled up the Gujarat High Court administration for failing to act, questioning how such a serious lapse could be overlooked even when a litigant's entire case hinged on those documents.
A bench of justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R Mahadevan said it was "surprising" that the high court, on its administrative side, had "turned a blind eye" to the loss of original records and had not directed registration of an FIR to fix accountability.
"The matter is serious as original documents from the Court's record have been lost, to put it mildly, and nobody has been held accountable," the court observed, setting aside the h...
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