HC sends sessions judge back to school to learn law

Gujarat High Court Justice Anant Dave ordered Nandiad sessions judge B B Pathak to go back to the judicial academy for a “training session is to be scheduled with regard to powers to be exercised under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure” (anticipatory bail), which the judge had flubbed in a blue bull poaching case, refusing bail assuming it was a non-bailable offence, when it is in fact bailable. “A bare perusal of the order passed by the Additional Sessions Judge of Nadiad revealed ignorance of provisions of Section 438,” said Dave. [PTI]

Comments

Guest 28 Mar 2014, 04:41
+0 -0
had ho gya :D
j.satheesh 8 Apr 2014, 18:44
+0 -0
Human brain is subject to frailities, so also that of the judges.sending a judge back to school to learn law on the ground of his ignorance on a particular point of law is another ignorance.alas, we don't have much judges who know law.