Published on : 08 Oct 2025, 3:41 pm 2 min read

The Supreme Court recently stayed a Madhya Pradesh High Court order that had accused a special POCSO court Judge of “intellectual dishonesty” and ordered an inquiry into all his past cases spanning five years [Vivek Singh Raghuwanshi vs. The State of Madhya Pradesh] .

A Bench of Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran passed the interim order while hearing a petition filed by the concerned judicial officer, Vivek Singh Raghuwanshi, who had challenged the High Court's remarks as “unwarranted, stigmatic and violative of natural justice.”

The petition arose from a July 25 order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in a POCSO case. A Bench Justices Vivek Agarwal and Avanindra Kumar Singh of the High Court, w

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