Judges not ‘robots’: Allahabad HC warns against treating court orders as optional

Rejecting the state’s plea to defer proceedings due to a pending stay vacation application, Justice Kshitij Shailendra delivered a strong defence of the rule of law and the dignity of the judiciary. Referring to the staggering pendency before constitutional courts, the court observed that courts cannot be expected to function as “super robots” while litigants treat active judicial orders as optional “decorative pieces of paper”.