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Allahabad High Court says UP trial courts must not mix Hindi and English in judgments.

The directive was issued while dismissing an appeal in a dowry death case.

The ruling will be circulated statewide after being placed before the chief justice.

The Allahabad High Court has held that trial courts in Uttar Pradesh may issue judgments in either Hindi or English, but cannot combine both languages in a single order. The ruling came as the court dismissed a criminal appeal challenging the acquittal of a husband in a dowry death case.

According to PTI, the bench of Justice Rajeev Misra and Justice Ajay Kumar delivered the direction while rejecting the appeal filed by Vaid Prakash Tyagi, the informant in the case. The judges observed that Uttar Pradesh is a Hindi-s

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