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SJA e-NEWSLETTER Official Newsletter of Jammu & Kashmir Judicial Academy (For internal circulation only) Volume 3 Monthly August 2020 Patron-in-Chief From the Editor’s Desk Hon’ble Ms. Justice A judge’s job is inherently stressful. Decision making is only one of the many stressful pursuits of a judge. A judge performs judicial and administrative Gita Mittal functions, and from that perspective he needs to have judicial and managerial Chief Justice capabilities. He has to manage the men and resources at his disposal and under his control, apart from dealing with persons and processes integral to justice Governing Committee delivery system but not entirely at his disposal and under his control. These multifarious functions of a judge add up to the stress generated by the core Hon’ble Mr Justice judicial function of judging. In the pure judicial function, a judge is required to Rajesh Bindal do a lot of mental exertion, in that he has to continuously update his knowledge Chairman of law by reading a lot of legal literature. Though, digital world has made the process of information collection a lot easy but the kind of vast information a judge has to process in the course of justice delivery, requires him to toil hard. Hon’ble Mr Justice Then he is required to continuously follow the judicial precedents flowing from Tashi Rabstan the constitutional courts. Many a online legal blogs come out with analysis of judicial precedents by law professionals of regular basis, however that also requires on daily basis to visit these blogs or follow their notifications pushed Hon’ble Ms Justice on the computer and mobile devices. Another important work for a judge, Sindhu Sharma associated with reading legal blogs is to maintain a personal diary compiling the judicial precedents in a sequence. Doing this on regular basis makes the job of a Hon’ble Shri Justice judge easy but nonetheless it is more stressful to begin with. At the time of Sanjay Dhar applying law to the facts presented before the court, a judge is required to search his personal diaries or to search online legal databases or to pick up law digests and commentaries from the book-shelves. Personal dairies regularly Hon’ble Shri Justice updated come very handy in such times. Dependable personal notes would Javed Iqbal Wani make the job easy for a judge thereby reducing the stress in one part of judicial Members process. Dealing with manpower and available resources involves management skills. Different management skills are required to deal with men and resources at various levels. Learning management skills therefore, becomes essential to Contents the non-core judicial functions. Dealing with many stakeholders in the justice delivery system, not entirely under the control of the presiding judge of a court, From Editor’s Desk ……...1 is also a considerable stressful factor. How these stakeholders would support the efforts of the court to dispense justice, is not entirely the domain of a judge. Legal Jottings……………..2 Better the quality of support from the other stakeholders, better would be the Activities of Academy .....18 quality of justice dispensation. Wholehearted support in all time cannot be expected but coordinated efforts and developing a professional culture among Judicial Officers’ Column these stakeholders make the things easy for the court and more for the judge. ………………………………...24 Advocates are important and inseparable component of any judicial system. They are considered to be the officers of the court and are expected to always behave ethically and with professional excellence. Counsel appearing in a case before the court are expected to render assistance to the court with a view to Editor help the court in arriving at a just conclusion of any lis. This culture, however, Rajeev Gupta is seen rare. Professional competence of a lawyer does not always translate into Director quality assistance rendered to the court. Developing a truly professional culture among lawyers would also make the job of a judge smooth. In all, working of judge is not dependent purely on his competence but is greatly affected by Composed by: many outside factors. Skill and managerial capabilities, however, help in Kaisar Ahmad Mir putting the things in a better order and thereby utilize the available resources to Senior Assistant an optimum. Better skills and management capabilities help streamlining the court processes and reduce the stress of a judge substantially. LEGAL JOTTINGS “We expect members of the noble fraternity to respect themselves first. They are an intellectual class of the society. What may be proper for others may still be improper for them, the expectations from them is to be exemplary to the entire society, then only the dignity of noble profession and judicial system can be protected.” Arun Mishra J. in Reepak Kansal v. Secretary General, Supreme Court of India & Ors. Writ Petition (Civil) No.541 of 2020, decided on July, 2020 CRIMINAL Supreme Court Judgments opportunity is a valuable right of the accused to seek justice and defend oneself. Failure of the Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No. 2787/2020 trial court to fairly apply its mind and consider Satyabrat Gupta v. The State of Jharkhand the defence, could endanger the conviction Decided on: July 29, 2020 itself. Unlike the prosecution which needs to The Supreme Court in this case reiterated prove the case beyond reasonable doubt, the the legal position and confirmed the view taken accused merely needs to create reasonable by the High Court that in a case involving doubt or prove their alternate version by mere charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act preponderance of probability. Thus, once a and Indian Penal Code, if sanction is not plausible version has been put forth in defence forthcoming in the former charge, prosecution at the Section 313 CrPC examination stage, can continue in the later in case sanction relates then it is for the prosecution to negate such to that charge. Sanction not granted in the P.C. defence plea. Act is no bar to proceed with offence under IPC The Hon'ble Supreme Court set aside if sanction in that respect is granted by the the order of the High Court and the trial court sanctioning authority. holding that the prosecution had failed to prove Criminal Appeal No. 283 of 2011 the guilt of the appellant under section 366A Parminder Kaur @ P.P Kaur@ Soni v. State and 506 of IPC beyond reasonable doubt. of Punjab. Decided on: July 28, 2020 Criminal Appeal No. 2463 of 2014 A complaint was filed under sections Shailendra Swarup v. The Deputy Director, 366A and 506 of IPC by the prosecutrix Enforcement Directorate alleging that the appellant who lives with her Decided on: July 27, 2020 child, mother and a boy who was a tenant in her The Supreme Court in this case held house enticed her to indulge into the illicit that the liability to proceed with for offence under Section 68 of Foreign Exchange intercourse with the boy. During the trial the appellant denied the allegations and gave an Regulation Act (FERA) depends on the role alternate version in her statement u/s 313 of one plays in the affairs of the company and not CrPC. on mere designation or status. For a Director’s The Supreme Court noted that under lability to arise, it must be made out that at the Criminal Procedure Code, after the closure of time of commission of offence, the Director prosecution evidence and examination of all was in charge of and was responsible to the witnesses the accused is given an opportunity of company for conduct of the business of the explanation through section 313(1) (b) of the company. Code. Any alternate version of the events and In this case, the Enforcement interpretations offered by the accused must be Directorate had issued a show cause notice to carefully analysed and considered by the trial the appellant who happened to be a practicing court in compliance of section 313(4). Such 2 SJA e-Newsletter advocate. He responded to the notice stating that one such circumstance in which the interest of he was only a part time non-executive director justice so justifies would be where the of the company and had no role in day to day electronic device is produced by a party who is affairs of the company. not in possession of such device, due to which The Supreme Court considered the issue such party is unable to secure the certificate. by referring to case law S.M.S. Pharmaceuticals The 3-judge bench, observed: Ltd. v. Neeta Bhalla, (2005) 8 SCC 89, handed “the major premise of Shafhi down in terms of Section 141 of N.I. Act. The Mohammad (supra) that such certificate cannot Court drew parity between the two provisions be secured by persons who are not in and held that the Enforcement Directorate was possession of an electronic device is wholly not right in fixing the liability of the appellant in incorrect. An application can always be made to the wake of material to suggest that the a Judge for production of such a certificate appellant was only a part time, non-executive from the requisite person under Section 65B(4) director of the company. The Adjudicating in cases in which such person refuses to give Officer imposed the penalty without returning a it.” finding that the appellant was liable for Moreover, the Bench clarified that the contravention of Section 8(3), 8(4) and Section last sentence in Anvar P.V. case which reads as 68 of the FERA. The Court allowed the appeal “…if an electronic record as such is used as and quashed the order of the Adjudicating primary evidence under Section 62 of the Officer.

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