In the order dated January 28, the Court observed that the practice of police encounters, particularly firing at the legs of accused persons, has seemingly become a routine feature.
The Court noted that in the case before it, the husband’s earning capacity had been completely destroyed due to a criminal act committed by the wife’s family.
The Court came to the aid of a first-year undergraduate student who was prevented from appearing in her semester examination because of administrative lapses at the university level.
The case concerned comments made by Dixit by which he referred to a TV panelist and activist as a “casanova, lovebird and munafiq" and of “trapping innocent girls through online chatting.”
The Court transferred the case to Lucknow after noting the complainant's claim that Gandhi's supporters were not allowing the complainant to argue the case in Raebareli court.
Raising or chanting devotional calls or proclamations by any person or a crowd is not an offence unless they are maliciously used to intimidate persons belonging to other religions, the Court said.