Judgment

R. C. LAHOTI, J.

( 1 ) THIS special leave petition under Article 136 of the Constitution of India filed by a judicial officer, seeks expunging of remarks detrimental to her, contained in the judgment of the High Court disposing of a criminal miscellaneous petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 filed by the accused persons seeking quashing of certain criminal proceedings.

( 2 ) LEAVE granted.

( 3 ) THE backdrop of events has an unusual setting. The appellant is a serving judicial officer posted as Metropolitan Magistrate. The Courtroom wherein the appellant held her Court was not properly furnished and not only her courtroom but other Court-rooms located in the same building also seriously lacked in infrastructural facilities and needed additions, alterations and improvements. The District Judge was persuading the State officials to do the needful. So far as the appellant is concerned her courtroom needed a dais to be constructed. That was done during summer vacation when the appellant was away from the headquarters. On her return she found a mess of the work having been done by the PWD officials. According to the appellant the dais was made like a