ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
Shyam Sundar Tripathi, J
Fahad and Others v. State of U. P. and Others
1. Before we deal with the case at hand we would like to bring up an issue that has been obstructing the administration of justice. The court process is repeatedly delayed.
The doctors have been scribing medico legal report, injury report, bed head tickets, prescriptions and post - mortem examination reports in such handwriting that it cannot be read by the prosecutor, the defence lawyer or the Court. We are faced with a situation in which when the medico legal report was summoned, counsel for none of the parties or the Court could read the report on account of the way it was written. It transpires that Dr. Ashish Saxena had scribed it. Dr. Ashish Saxena had to be summoned to the court with typed copy of the medico legal report / injury report.
2. To bring the matter in context we hereby extract order dated 18.9.2018: -
' 1. Order dated 29.08.2018 reads as under:
' 1. Short affidavit has been filed in deference to order dated 3.8.2018, which is taken on record. Injury report has been appended.
Although, the xerox copy of the medical report is clear, however, handwriting of the doctor is such that it is not readable.
We hereby direct the author of the medical report to remain present in
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