{"id":31503,"date":"2001-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/rajeev-srivastava-vs-state-and-ors-on-23-january-2001"},"modified":"2017-05-12T07:45:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T02:15:12","slug":"rajeev-srivastava-vs-state-and-ors-on-23-january-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/rajeev-srivastava-vs-state-and-ors-on-23-january-2001","title":{"rendered":"Rajeev Srivastava vs State And Ors. on 23 January, 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Jharkhand High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Rajeev Srivastava vs State And Ors. on 23 January, 2001<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: V Gupta, A Prasad<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p> 1. The delay in filing<br \/>\nthe appeal is condoned.\n<\/p>\n<p> 2. In this appeal filed under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent against the judgment dated 14.11.2000 passed by the learned single Judge of this Court the appellant appears to be aggrieved of the adverse remarks recorded against him in paras 9 and 10 of the judgment under appeal, specially the part which directs that said remarks be entered in his character roll and the communicated to him.\n<\/p>\n<p> 3. We have heard learned counsel for the appellant. We have gone through the judgment under appeal as also the documents annexed with the memo of appeal by the appellant. It appears to us that both the appellant as well as the learned District Judge, Hazaribagh were under some mistaken impression with regard to their obligation of filing counter affidavit in this Court in answer to the writ petition and to enable them to do so, they had some difficulty in engaging the counsel or establishing any contact with him or her. It is in this process, perhaps that the appellant might have been misled in either arranging to file counter affidavit, or giving the appropriate briefing to the counsel or in informing his District Judge about what happened on the day when he came to Ranchi from Hazaribagh and in his attempt to find the counsel and on his failure to do so, how he met the Registrar of the High Court and what all happened in his meeting with the Registrar.\n<\/p>\n<p> 4. We have seen the explanation offered by the appellant as also the<\/p>\n<p>explanation submitted by the learned District Judge. To us it appears to be an act of bonafide mistake. Undoubtedly the learned District Judge and the appellant could have been more vigilant and more careful in dealing with a matter which was pending in this Court and in ensuring that the counter affidavit should have been filed on their behalf with promptitude and without any delay. Their negligence however, does not border on culpability and, therefore, viewed thus, the adverse comments recorded by the learned single Judge against the appellant in paras 9 and 10 of the judgment appear to be somewhat misplaced. In our considered view, these adverse comments do require to be expunged from the judgment under appeal.\n<\/p>\n<p> 5. For the aforesaid reasons, there<br \/>\nfore, we allow this appeal and expunge<br \/>\nthe adverse comments recorded against<br \/>\nthe appellant in paras 9 and 10 of the<br \/>\njudgment under appeal. We however, do<br \/>\nwish to observe and direct that the appellant learned District Judge, Hazaribagh<br \/>\nand others conducted with the defence of<br \/>\nthe litigation in this Court shall remain<br \/>\nmore careful in future.\n<\/p>\n<p> 6. Appeal allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jharkhand High Court Rajeev Srivastava vs State And Ors. on 23 January, 2001 Bench: V Gupta, A Prasad JUDGMENT 1. The delay in filing the appeal is condoned. 2. In this appeal filed under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent against the judgment dated 14.11.2000 passed by the learned single Judge of this Court the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-jharkhand-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rajeev Srivastava vs State And Ors. on 23 January, 2001 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/rajeev-srivastava-vs-state-and-ors-on-23-january-2001\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rajeev Srivastava vs State And Ors. on 23 January, 2001 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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