The Allahabad High Court recently directed a magistrate to pass an appropriate order under Sections 203 or 204 CrPC (as the case may be) in a complaint case pending before a Court in Ballia for the last 7 years. A bench of Justice Saurabh Shyam Shamshery observed that such a direction was being given to the magistrate concerned to secure the ends of justice and to curb the...