‘Compensation fixed as token’; Patna HC directs two Judicial Officers to pay Rs 100 each to a man for subjecting him to trial u/s 498-A IPC not maintainable against him
The amount of compensation is fixed as a token to remind the Judicial Officers that before taking cognizance and during judicial inquiry and trial, it is the bounden and obligatory duty to go through the complaint carefully and then take cognizance.