Refrain from referring to trial courts as lower courts: SC

The Supreme Court in a recent order has asked the registry of the top court to desist from referring to trial courts as "lower courts" and directed the concerned registrar to ensure all communications seeking trial court records in the future do not carry such mention.

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In an order passed on February 8, a bench of justices AS Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said: "It will be appropriate if the Registry of this Court stops referring to the Trial Courts as 'Lower Courts'." 

The court was hearing an appeal by two murder convicts challenging an order of the Allahabad high court passed in October 2018 upholding their conviction and life sentence for an incident in 1981.

Calling for the records from the trial court, the bench added, "Even the record of the Trial Court should not be referred to as Lower Court Record (LCR). Instead, it should be referred as the Trial Court Record (TCR)."

Posting the matter for hearing in August, the court asked the registrar (judicial) to take note of this order for future compliance.