"Mentioning Citations In Pleadings Sufficient": Madhya Pradesh HC Requests Bar To Avoid Unnecessarily Filing Judgment Photocopies With Petitions

The division bench comprising Justices Vivek Rusia and A.N. Kesharwani made the said observations while dealing with a petition challenging the vires of Madhya Pradesh Prevention and Recovery of Damages to Public and Private Property Act, 2021. The Court noted that apart from a few annexures, the petition included judgments passed by the Apex Court which were also filed in a connected matter. Due to the same, the petition ended up running into more than 200 pages-

Filing of photocopy of judgments causes financial burden not only to the litigants but to the Registry of this Court also because each and every documents are scanned for which High Court is paying huge amount to private agency, therefore, we request the members of the Bar Association not to file unnecessary documents especially the judgments which can be relied on at the time of argument and only mentioning of the citations in the pleadings would be sufficient.

With the aforesaid observations, the Court directed the Registry to send a copy of the order to High Court Bar Association, Indore.