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Criminal justice system mustn’t worsen pain of mentally distressed: HC | Dehradun News

Dehradun: Uttarakhand high court (HC) has overturned the conviction of a govt employee from Haridwar district in an attempted suicide case, observing that “although his sentence was minor, the stigma of conviction had caused significant prejudice, impacting both his career and mental health”.A single bench of Justice Pankaj Purohit, while emphasising that “the criminal justice…

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Judges mustn’t yield to lawyers’ pressure: Gujarat HC | India News

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court has said that judges yielding to intimidation or pressure from lawyers and recusing themselves from cases only fuels “browbeating, forum shopping, and attempts to influence the bench”. Justice Niral Mehta made the remark while quashing two recusals by Ahmedabad benches of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and two subsequent transfer…

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