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No ‘Hon’ble’ or ‘Mr’ for Union minister in FIR: Allahabad HC seeks ACS home’s reply
The court passed the order in a petition filed by Harshit Sharma and 2 others seeking quashing of an FIR registered against them at Highway police station, Mathura
The Allahabad high court has sought an explanation from the additional chief secretary (home), UP, regarding the non-mentioning of the usual honorific ‘Hon’ble’ before the name of a Union minister whose name figured in an FIR lodged in Mathura last year.
A bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena passed the order in a petition filed by Harshit Sharma and 2 others seeking quashing of an FIR registered against them at Highway police station, Mathura, bearing case crime number 1197 of 2025.
The court in its order dated March 31 observed, “The Additional Chief Secretary, (Home), Government of U.P., Lucknow will explain on his affidavit why in the FIR the Hon’ble Union Minister, whose name figures, has not been described with the usual honorific of Hon’ble, and at one point, referred to just by his name without even appending a ‘Mr.’”.
“Even if in the written report, the Hon’ble Minister was inappropriately described by the first informant, while writing the FIR, it was the duty of the Police to have abided by the protocol by inserting the honorific, may be in brackets,” the bench said.
The court directed the registrar (compliance) to communicate the order to the additional chief secretary, (home), UP govt, Lucknow, and the senior superintendent of police, Mathura, within 48 hours. The court fixed April 6 as the next date of hearing in the case.
