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Allahabad High Court imposes ₹25k costs on Gram Pradhan who threatened lawyer with SC/ST case
"It is sad that members of the bar, who virtually work like soldiers in times of peace to secure justice for citizens, are hurled with words of criticism from all quarters," the Court said.
The Allahabad High Court recently imposed costs of ₹25,000 on a Gram Pradhan (village chief) who spoke to a lawyer in a derogatory manner and threatened to implicate him in a case under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act [Bano Bibi vs State of UP and 4 Others].