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Kochi: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Friday issued notice to the State and Central governments and the High Court Registrar-General on a public interest writ petition seeking to remove the national emblem engraved improperly in the front of the Kerala High Court building.

The Bench comprising Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice K.M. Joseph issued the notice when the petition came up for hearing. The petition contended that the inscription of the emblem violated “the description and design mentioned in the schedule to the State Emblem of India (Prohibition of Improper Use) Act, 2005.” The petition said the State Emblem/National Emblem was part of the National Flag. The motto ‘Satyameva Jayate’ — truth alone triumphs — in Devanagiri script should be written below the profile of the Lion Capital in compliance with the design specified in the schedule. However, the motto was written in English on either side of the emblem that was installed in the High Court Building.

A writ petition was filed seeking to implement the recommendation of the Law Commission for establishing Directorate of Public Prosecution at the district-level and State-level. The recommendation was made in the 154th report of the Law Commission of India. Another pet ition was filed seeking to the implement the recommendation of the Law Commission for setting up a separate wing for probing crimes. Petitioner Gokul Prasad contended that the State government had failed to implement the recommendation made in 1996.

Justice K.T. Sankaran on Friday held that an order passed by the High Court imposing litigation cost could not be executed by filing a petition before a civil court.

Disposing of a revision petition, the court held that in the absence of any specific rule, a civil court was incapable of executing the order for paying cost.

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